AI & the Climate Crisis

Forensic Psychology Unit, Psychology

Investigate AI's contradictory role within climate change

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. 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<a href="https://ai-uk.turing.ac.uk/fringe-events/" title="https://ai-uk.turing.ac.uk/fringe-events/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Fringe Events – The Alan Turing Institute</a> <a href="https://www.gold.ac.uk/computing/people/d-mcquillan/" title="https://www.gold.ac.uk/computing/people/d-mcquillan/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Dr Dan McQuillan | Goldsmiths, University of London</a> will lead the discussion and is joined by: Boxi Wu - Oxford Internet Institutehttps://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/profiles/boxi-wu/ Fieke Jansen - Critical Infrastructure Labhttps://www.criticalinfralab.net/ Sebastián Lehuedé - King's College Londonhttps://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/sebastian-lehuede Patrick Brodie - University College Dublinhttps://people.ucd.ie/patrick.brodie Open to all, please secure a free ticket.Please note this session will be recorded.

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