Hey Reddit! I'm Kenneth Russell DeGraff, former Senior Policy Advisor for Speaker Nancy Pelosi. I spent nearly two decades in Congress crafting climate and tech legislation, and working across the aisle to build bi-partisan support, including playing a key role in crafting the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and CHIPS and Science Act, and lots more. Now I’m watching a new challenge that could undermine everything we worked to achieve: the massive energy footprint of artificial intelligence.
I’ll be here to talk about data centers, what concerned citizens should know about the hidden costs of AI, and what actions Congress should take to regulate the technology.
AMA starting now for the next couple hours!
AMA starting Monday 8/25 at 5 pm ET / 2 pm PT! I’ll be around until at least 7p/4p.
Proof: I had one of the "best staff Twitter accounts on Capitol Hill" and a "key role in crafting climate policy." I helped Girl Talk, DJ Drama and Congressman Mike Doyle explode into every music magazine and blog at the time, called "The Coolest Moment in the History of Congress and Why it Matters" and Out Magazine named me to their annual Out 100. I've been a fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, where I have a new paper on these topics, Stanford Law - Center for Internet and Society and the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator.
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