Panel #2: AI as a Tool and Burden

Artificial Intelligence promises unprecedented foresight and optimization opportunities for energy efficiency, but its growing energy and infrastructure demands challenge the very systems it seeks to optimize. Through perspectives from AI model development and investment to grid capacity planning and efficient material discovery, this panel explores AI’s role in science innovation and infrastructure upgrade. Panelists from academia and industry will discuss both the opportunities and burdens introduced by the rise and upscaling of AI in today’s energy systems.