[csaa-forum] PERC Seminar 20th August - Environmental Impacts of AI

[Sy Taffel]

*The Environmental Impacts of AI*

 Christine Parker, University of Melbourne and Sy Taffel, Massey University

 Wednesday 20th August, 12:00 - 13:00 NZST

 Zoom: *https://massey.zoom.us/j/83251724991
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While Big Tech corporations contend that an AI-driven future is both
inevitable and a way of straightforwardly fixing climate change and other
ecological crises, there has been increasing levels of concern surrounding
the environmental impacts of AI. Join Christine Parker and Sy Taffel for a
discussion of how we can cut through the greenwash, move beyond simplistic
rhetoric of AI as ‘poison’ or ‘saviour’, and demystify some of the
problems, practices and potentials surrounding the multiple and complex
relationships between AI and the environment.

Christine Parker is a Professor of Law at Melbourne Law School, The
University of Melbourne and Chief Investigator in the *ARC Centre of
Excellence for Automated Decision Making and Society
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 Christine teaches and researches socio legal approaches to lawyers’
ethics, business regulation  and corporate accountability.

Sy Taffel is a Senior Lecturer in Media Studies and co-director of the
Political Ecology Research Centre at Massey University, Aotearoa-New
Zealand. Sy’s research focuses upon the ecological, material, cultural, and
political affordances of digital technologies. His current research project
explores the intersections between digital technologies and postgrowth
futures.

2025 marks ten years of Massey’s Political Ecology Research Centre (PERC).
We are celebrating the occasion by holding a seminar series based on the
theme of ‘Environmental Futures’. Across a diverse range of speakers, we
will be reflecting on the developments and conversations that have followed
on from PERC events and looking toward the future. To see all the speakers
in this series, *visit this webpage
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 Ngā mihi nui,

Sy Taffel and Alice Beban (PERC co-directors)
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