SUNY ESF
Center for Artificial Intelligence, Society, and the Environment
The Center for Artificial Intelligence, Society, and the Environment (AISE) explores all the ways that AI shapes our relationship to better understandings of the environment. The Center investigates the social construction of digital realities and specifically what these imply for a more authentic and just engagement with the natural world and the built environment.
The goal of ESF’s Center for AISE is facilitate scholarship and teaching examining all the ways that artificial intelligence can, and already is, affecting research processes, and how this both shapes and gets shaped by society and the environment.
The Center provides resources for graduate students and faculty to pursue research around the subject of artificial intelligence in the worlds of environmental science and resource management, as well as environmental design, and to make this knowledge accessible to the larger ESF community.
AISE is helping support contributions to the research and analysis of artificial intelligence. To date, the project is doing so with research fellowships for graduate students and faculty, assistantships in curriculum design, guest speakers, and workshops. We also plan to develop conversations with working professionals and scholars with work related to artificial intelligence and the environment.
What we do
Keep an eye out for announcements about upcoming lectures, workshops, and fellowship opportunities organized by AISE.
People
The Center’s co-directors are Sharon Moran, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and Josh Cousins, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies.
Learn more about our people and opportunities to work with the Center here.