Keepin' It Real: The Impacts of AI on Jobs, Climate, Security, and Trust

While AI is already helping to advance impact it is also starting to reshape labor markets, energy systems, information integrity, and public trust. Both are happening at a speed often faster than institutions can respond. This session provides a grounded, practitioner-oriented examination of AI’s second-order effects and seeks to be an on-ramp for how practitioner experience can inform smarter AI policy development. We want more AI policy conversations to have more meaningful input from practitioners who actually deploy technology in communities.