​Depending on who you ask, AI is either wrecking the climate or about to fix it. Both can't be the whole story.

​Abigail Merrill from GrowthUp Partners will lead this interactive panel discussion on AI and the environment. This session brings several perspectives on AI and the environment, and gives you a way to weigh the costs and benefits of your own AI use so you can reach your own view.

​After this session, you'll be able to:

• ​Locate where AI's environmental cost actually sits, and see how small your individual slice is next to the headlines

• ​Evaluate a claim critically by asking what was measured, by whom, and what got left out, using the "every prompt uses a bottle of water" headline broken into fact, fiction, and best practices

• ​Apply a cost and benefit analysis to your own AI use and to their organization's

​Leave with a point of view you can defend: where AI earns its cost, where it does not, and where you will use it more deliberately

​Speakers

​Abigail Merrill

​Abigail Merrill is the CEO and Lead AI Consultant of GrowthUP Partners, a Certified AI Practitioner, and a human-centered AI strategist who helps organizations strengthen judgment, team performance, and customer impact through responsible AI integration. A two time founder with more than 15 years of experience in B2B, B2C, and regulated industries, she created AI for ROI™ to move teams from AI experimentation to measurable results, and the AI Personality Assessment™ to surface exactly where AI adoption breaks down on a team before lost resources. She is an active voice on human-centered AI literacy for all and an organizer of the AI for Women events in the RTP area.

​Shawn Jones

​Bio coming soon!

​Location

​Raleigh Founded North Street

​📍 509 W North St, Raleigh (map)

​Questions?

​Learn more about Raleigh-Durham Climate Week plus get answers to your FAQs here: www.raleighdurhamclimateweek.com

​Partners

​Raleigh-Durham Climate Week is made possible by an Impact Partner Grant from the City of Raleigh.