Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence for environmental sciences: An innovative approach for summer school

(AI2ES) seeks to address such problems by developing synergistic approaches with a team of scientists from three disciplines: environmental science (including atmospheric, ocean, and other physical sciences), artificial intelligence (AI), and social science including risk communication.

As part of our work, we developed a novel approach to summer school, held from 27 to 30 June 2022. The goal of this summer school was to teach a new generation of environmental scientists how to cross disciplines and develop approaches that integrate all three disciplinary perspectives and approaches in order to solve environmental science problems. In addition to a lecture series that focused on the synthesis of AI, environmental science, and risk communication, this year's summer school included a unique "trust-a-thon" component where participants gained hands-on experience applying both risk communication and explainable AI techniques to pretrained machine learning models.