Event overview
Investigate AI's contradictory role within climate change
This event is part of the Goldsmiths AI UK Fringe public discussion series: AI Consciousness, Creativity and the Climate Crisis in collaboration with the The Alan Turing Institute.
We're told that AI is essential for solving climate change. Only AI, it is said, can cope with the scale and complexity of the data, optimise our energy use and drive the new wave of green tech solutions.
However, AI is a very material technology whose algorithmic powers depend on an infrastructure of high-energy microchips and water guzzling data centres. This panel will explore the other side of AI's role in environmental transformation by looking at its demands for minerals, energy, water and land.
These forms of AI extractivism are targeted at different communities in ways that raise serious questions about social justice and colonialism. Our panel of radical experts will discuss the dark material aspect of AI's connection to the climate crisis.
Speakers:
Boxi Wu - Oxford Internet Institute
https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/profiles/boxi-wu/
Fieke Jansen - Critical Infrastructure Lab
https://www.criticalinfralab.net/
Sebastián Lehuedé - King's College London
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/sebastian-lehuede
Patrick Brodie - University College Dublin
https://people.ucd.ie/patrick.brodie
Open to all, please secure a free ticket via the link.
Please note this session will be recorded.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 19 Mar 2024 | 6:30pm - 8:00pm |
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