Workshop #1 : The (Un-)Sustainability of AI: Philosophical Debates and Industrial Practices
12 March 2025
About this Workshop
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.
Schedule
- 13:00-13:15 – Welcome
- 13:15–14:00 – Hendrik Kempt (RWTH Aachen) – Sustainability as a Threshold Concept
- 14:00–14:45 – Federica Lucivero (Oxford) – The Culture of Efficiency in the Context of Green AI Solutions
- 14:45–15:00 – Break
- 15:00–15:45 – Srinjoy Mitra (Edinburgh) Challenging Techno-Solutionism: The Role of AI Innovation and the Value of Technological Growth
- 15:45–16:30 – Concluding discussion
- 16:30 – End of event