2025 Update on the NSF AI Institute for Research on Trustworthy AI in Weather, Climate, and Coastal Oceanography (AI2ES)

We provide a short update to the broader AMS community on the AI developed by the NSF AI Institute for Research on Trustworthy AI in Weather, Climate, and Coastal Oceanography (AI2ES). This talk will be an overview and we will point to our other more in-depth AMS talks and posters by all of our scientists.

The goal of AI2ES is to develop novel AI techniques that are demonstrated to be trustworthy and that will directly improve prediction, understanding, and communication of high-impact weather and climate hazards. Launched in September 2020, AI2ES is conducting transformative convergent research in AI for the weather and climate communities. In addition to developing novel AI techniques, we focus on the nature of trust and what makes AI trustworthy for professional and scientific end-users.

In this talk, we overview the highlights of our research achievements for year 4 as well as our achievements in broader impact and workforce development. We will highlight recent work on understanding trust in AI for forecasters, how convergent science is transformative, and how we are studying trust overall as well as ensuring that we create trustworthy models.

Our website, ai2es.org, contains more about the full scope of our research.