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AI, Climate Change, and Energy Demand Panel is a public panel discussion co-hosted by the Institute for Climate, Water, and the Environment, and the Institute of Informatics of Applied Technology, discussing the challenges and opportunities of addressing climate change in an era of rapid development and deployment of artificial intelligence. Is it possible to meet our decarbonization and renewable energy goals while satisfying the intense energy demands of AI data centers? Can we have responsible AI and address the climate crisis?

This event will be livestreamed.

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How are K-12 educators in Washington using AI? What types of AI applications do they wish existed? What support do they want, and what AI-related issues are they grappling with?

This workshop shares preliminary findings from our experience working with nearly 100 K-12 educators in a multi-day professional development series funded by the Gates Foundation. During the first hour, we will present findings from the AI Academies. In the second hour, attendees will respond to those findings and collectively brainstorm implications and opportunities at the classroom, school system, industry, and policy levels.

This workshop targets K-12 school and district leaders, ed-tech professionals, and developers. Participants will leave with a clearer picture of how educators are currently incorporating AI and help shape a vision for what comes next.

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This workshop will provide an overview of U.S. innovation law and policy, focusing on the ways in which the law promotes or stifles AI development and deployment. It will also examine how AI is changing risk allocation and liability and what these changes mean for businesses and workers. Lastly, it will look at the interplay of enacted law and regulation with less formal norms that can serve as mechanisms for fostering responsible use of AI across multiple sectors. The speaker for this workshop is Agnieszka McPeak, the Frederick N. & Barbara T. Curley Professor of Commercial Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Program Innovation at Gonzaga Law.

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