Workshop #2 : “The Social Unsustainability of AI”

About this Workshop

This second workshop probes the social unsustainability of AI by foregrounding feminist African value systems, public-interest evaluation, and the hidden labour regimes that underpin contemporary AI infrastructures. Bringing together critical voices from Ghana, Germany, and the global AI justice movement, it illuminates how power, inequality, and coloniality shape the conditions for genuinely sustainable technological futures.

Schedule

13:00-13:15 – Welcome

13:15–14:00 – Modestha Mensah (U Cape Coast (Ghana)/U Bonn (Germany))
– A Feminist African Values Systems Perspective for Sustainable AI

14:00–14:45 – Theresa Züger (Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, HIIG)
– Evaluating sustainability and public interest for AI projects

​14:45-15:00 – Break

15:00-15:45 – Adio Dinika (DAIR Insitute)
– Invisible Hands: Labor, Sustainability, and the Coloniality of AI

15:45–16:15 – Concluding discussion

16:15 – End of event