Symposium on AI, Data Centers, and the Climate Change Challenge

This event will bring together university leadership, scholars, community members and students to critically examine the convergence of artificial intelligence (AI), data center infrastructure, sustainability and climate change.

Symposium Highlights:

• 9:30-10 a.m.: Light refreshments and coffee
• 10-11:25 a.m.: Keynote address and Q&A with Dr. Ruha Benjamin
• 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.: Roundtable conversations on AI and climate

About our Keynote Speaker:

Dr. Ruha Benjamin is the Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, where she specializes in the interdisciplinary study of science, medicine and technology with a focus on the relationship between innovation and social inequity.

She is also the founding director of the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab and an award-winning author of four books: Imagination: A Manifesto; Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want; Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code; and People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier.

Benjamin is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the Marguerite Casey Foundation Freedom Scholar Award, the President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton, and the MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Fellowship.

This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. Please kindly RSVP to help us plan for food and prevent food waste.