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Priya Donti

Assistant Professor, MIT · 2 appearances on the record.

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Priya Donti is an Assistant Professor at MIT and the co-founder and Chair of Climate Change AI. Her research focuses on machine learning algorithms for forecasting, optimization, and control to integrate renewable energy into power grids.

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3 assertions · 3 opinions · 2 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Priya argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Donti: Utilities lack regulated rate of return incentives for software innovation
“Utilities and system operators can receive a regulated rate of return, some percentage of the money back on kind of investments in things like, you know, wires in the ground, but we don't currently see that for software innovation, and we don't currently see t…”
Priya Donti Jun 22, 2023 ▶ 29:46 How AI is being used in energy, right now

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Everything Priya Donti said on the Green Blueprint that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
Donti: Conditioned on AI or not, 'P-Doom' is high for power grids
“Conditioned or not conditioned on AI, P-Doom is high for the grid, right? We are dealing with climate change and extreme events. We are dealing with a lack of, you know, planning for these things as we saw in Texas, for example. So I don't know that AI increas…”
Priya Donti Jun 22, 2023 ▶ 23:32 How AI is being used in energy, right now
Opinion
Donti: Generative AI Hype Risks Triggering Another AI Winter
“And with technologies like generative AI, there's a lot of, you know, flashiness and sort of jumping on the hype train, but I do sincerely worry that this will lead to an AI winter if a lot of those, you know, if we see a lot of, you know, hype and unscrupulou…”
Priya Donti Jun 22, 2023 ▶ 7:01 How AI is being used in energy, right now
Insight
Donti: Average-Case ML Fails on Grids Without Physical Boundary Guardrails
“The fact that you can get a machine learning algorithm that learns to do something nuanced from data and does it right most of the time doesn't help you in those times when it does something wrong that one time that really blacks out your grid. So this is wher…”
Priya Donti Jun 22, 2023 ▶ 11:55 How AI is being used in energy, right now
Insight
Donti: GenAI works when generation is hard but verification is easy
“As maybe thinking back to this barometer to evaluate whether an application kind of makes sense, I think a lot of these make sense because they satisfy this key property, which is something that is hard to do, but easy to verify. So ChatGPT and other generativ…”
Priya Donti Apr 12, 2023 ▶ 35:45 Live: How AI could supercharge climate tech
Assertion Supported
Donti: Utilities lack regulated rate of return incentives for software innovation
“Utilities and system operators can receive a regulated rate of return, some percentage of the money back on kind of investments in things like, you know, wires in the ground, but we don't currently see that for software innovation, and we don't currently see t…”
Priya Donti Jun 22, 2023 ▶ 29:46 How AI is being used in energy, right now
Opinion
Donti: Attribution Science Galvanized Public Climate Conversation
“And I actually attribute a lot of that to improvements in attribution science, right? When we were able to really start saying this specific event is due to climate change, I think that really kind of galvanized the public conversation.”
Priya Donti Apr 12, 2023 ▶ 9:22 Live: How AI could supercharge climate tech
Assertion Supported
Donti: Open Climate Fix cut National Grid forecasting error by 33-50%
“For example, the non-profit Open Climate Fix, they used AI and machine learning in combination, you know, with satellite imagery, historical data, to cut the error of the forecast that National Grid, the UK power system operator, is creating by a third to a ha…”
Priya Donti Apr 12, 2023 ▶ 19:46 Live: How AI could supercharge climate tech
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Donti: Power grids lack viable deployment pathways for critical AI applications
“There is something really critical holding that back, which is that there aren't really good pathways to deployment for a lot of techniques, AI machine learning or otherwise, that are actually interacting with critical operations and, you know, critical functi…”
Priya Donti Apr 12, 2023 ▶ 43:45 Live: How AI could supercharge climate tech

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Appearances (2)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
How AI is being used in energy, right now Jun 22, 2023 23m
Live: How AI could supercharge climate tech Apr 12, 2023 11m
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