An Environmental Grounding with Masheika Allgood

Masheika Allgood delineates good AI from GenAI, outlines the environmental imprint of hyperscale data centers, and emphasizes AI success depends on the why and data. 

Masheika and Kimberly discuss her path from law to AI; AI as an embodied infrastructure; forms of beneficial AI; if the GenAI math maths; narratives underpinning AI; the physical imprint of hyperscale data centers; the fallacy of closed loop cooling; who pays for electrical capacity; enabling community dialogue; starting with why in AI product design; AI as a data infrastructure play; staying positive and finding the thing you can do. 

Masheika Allgood is an AI Ethicist and Founder of AllAI Consulting. She is a well-known advocate for sustainable AI development and contributor to the IEEE P7100 Standard for Measurement of Environmental Impacts of Artificial Intelligence Systems. 

Related Resources 

• Taps Run Dry Initiative (Website) 
• Data Center Advocacy Toolkit (Website) 
• Eat Your Frog (Substack) 
• AI Data Governance, Compliance, and Auditing for Developers (LinkedIn Learning) 
• A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age (Referenced Book) 

A transcript of this episode is here.