Events in September 2026–June 2027
September 29, 2026
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September 29, 2026
Next Workshop
Workshop #4: Dystopian AI Futures
29 September 2026, 1-5pm (CET)
📍 Online via Zoom
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 (University of Amsterdam), Alva Markelius (Cambridge University), and David Danks (University of Virginia), 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.
Previous Workshops
Workshop #3
Resisting the AI Hype
16 March 2026
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 (University of Amsterdam), Alva Markelius (Cambridge University), and David Danks (University of Virginia), 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.
Workshop #2
The Social Unsustainability of AI
29 September 2025
Probing the social unsustainability of AI by foregrounding feminist African value systems, public-interest evaluation, and hidden labour regimes.
Workshop #1
The (Un-)Sustainability of AI: Philosophical Debates and Industrial Practices
12 March 2025
This 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.