Wendy de Gomez

Until recently there was scant literature about the water and electricity consumption of Artificial Intelligence.

This presentation provides facts about the staggering impact that this technology will have on water and electricity resource supply and demand.

Registrants will be encouraged to think about viable options to combat this staggering resource use through public advocacy and individual behavior patterns.

Biography:

Wendy is a PhD student in the Department of Management Science and Engineering at the University of Waterloo where she researches the process of AI policy formation and its subsequent implementation by modelling both long and short-term externalities of AI development and deployment. Externalities include environmental impacts, political survival, organizational efficiencies, and interest group influence as variables affecting the development and proliferation of AI rules within rule-forming entities such as an organization or government. Wendy is a trained research strategist and data analyst with over 13 years of experience in the public and private sector and believes that a truly holistic perspective of this technology should be paramount in determining its acceleration path.

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