Climate Arena 2024

Artificial intelligence continues to reshape industries, including journalism. But its environmental impact is often overlooked. AI systems require massive amounts of energy, contributing significantly to the global carbon footprint. This panel will explore both the reporting and practical challenges of addressing AI’s climate cost.

Pablo Jimenez Arandia, an investigative journalist, will discuss “invisible” AI's visible impact, the vast energy demands of machine learning models, and examples of reporting that reveal the scale of the problem. 

Sebastian Mondial, a data journalist, will talk about his recent work with big media in Germany in trying to make AI more cost and energy efficient, and protocols that newsrooms can adopt to directly mitigate AI’s climate cost while continuing to report on it.

Come join this talk to hear from different perspectives about AI and the climate — and what we can do about it.