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SUMMARY:Workshop #3: “Resisting the AI Hype”
DESCRIPTION:This workshop examines how to resist the accelerating hype around AI by scrutinising its narratives\, imaginaries\, and political functions\, drawing on critical perspectives from different disciplines. With contributions from Katja Rogers\, Alva Markelius and David Danks\, it offers an empirically informed and analytically grounded space to disentangle inflated promises and projections from the real social and political stakes of contemporary AI. \n12-12.30pm: Beginning & Introduction\, Initial Discussion “Why is AI Hype philosophically relevant?” \n12.30-1.15pm: Alva Markelius (Cambridge University): The mechanisms of AI hype and its planetary and social costs \n10min break \n1.25-2.10pm: Katja Rogers (University of Amsterdam)  Emphasizing Deliberation and Critical Thinking in an AI Hype World \n10min break \n2.20-3pm: David Danks (University of Virginia): Tackling AI Hyping \n3-3.45pm: Shared Discussion and Looking Ahead
URL:https://wawais.de/event/workshop-3-resisting-the-ai-hype/
LOCATION:Zoom\, Germany
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ORGANIZER;CN="Prof. Dr. Jan-Christoph Heilinger":MAILTO:jan-christoph.heilinger@uni-wh.de
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SUMMARY:Workshop #2 : “The Social Unsustainability of AI”
DESCRIPTION:About this Workshop \nThis 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. \nSchedule \n13:00-13:15 – Welcome \n13:15–14:00 –  Modestha Mensah (U Cape Coast (Ghana)/U Bonn (Germany))\n– A Feminist African Values Systems Perspective for Sustainable AI \n14:00–14:45 –  Theresa Züger (Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society\, HIIG)\n– Evaluating sustainability and public interest for AI projects \n​14:45-15:00 – Break \n15:00-15:45 –  Adio Dinika (DAIR Insitute)\n– Invisible Hands: Labor\, Sustainability\, and the Coloniality of AI \n15:45–16:15 – Concluding discussion \n16:15 – End of event
URL:https://wawais.de/event/workshop-2-the-social-unsustainability-of-ai/
CATEGORIES:All workshops,Workshop
ORGANIZER;CN="Prof. Dr. Jan-Christoph Heilinger":MAILTO:jan-christoph.heilinger@uni-wh.de
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250312T130000
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SUMMARY:Workshop #1 : The (Un-)Sustainability of AI: Philosophical Debates and Industrial Practices
DESCRIPTION:About this Workshop \nThis workshop brings together scholars to examine the normative core of sustainability in AI\, interrogating threshold concepts\, efficiency cultures\, and the promises and limits of innovation. Through three focused talks\, it offers a critical forum for assessing how contemporary industrial practices and philosophical debates shape the possibilities of a just technological future. \nSchedule \n13:00-13:15  – Welcome  \n13:15–14:00 – Hendrik Kempt (RWTH Aachen)  –  Sustainability as a Threshold Concept \n14:00–14:45 – Federica Lucivero (Oxford) –  The Culture of Efficiency in the Context of Green AI Solutions​ \n​14:45–15:00 – Break \n15:00–15:45 – Srinjoy Mitra (Edinburgh) Challenging Techno-Solutionism: The Role of AI Innovation and the Value of Technological Growth​ \n15:45–16:30 – Concluding discussion \n16:30               – End of event
URL:https://wawais.de/event/workshop-1-the-un-sustainability-of-ai-philosophical-debates-and-industrial-practices/
CATEGORIES:All workshops,Workshop
ORGANIZER;CN="Prof. Dr. Jan-Christoph Heilinger":MAILTO:jan-christoph.heilinger@uni-wh.de
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