<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt">The Environmental Impacts of AI</span><span></span></b></p>

<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt"> Christine Parker, University of
Melbourne and Sy Taffel, Massey University</span><span></span></p>

<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt"> Wednesday 20th August, 12:00 -
13:00 NZST</span><span></span></p>

<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt"> Zoom: <u><span style="color:blue"><a href="https://apc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmassey.zoom.us%2Fj%2F83251724991&data=05%7C02%7CS.A.Taffel%40massey.ac.nz%7C162b16b48bd1402945cc08ddda0df6d6%7C388728e1bbd0437898dcf8682e644300%7C0%7C0%7C638906475706807773%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=I99o%2BTiCwwTK0%2FjE%2BKB83vOcw2ptpRe0BqvJg4sfC4Y%3D&reserved=0" style="color:rgb(70,120,134);text-decoration:underline">https://massey.zoom.us/j/83251724991</a></span></u></span><span></span></p>

<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">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.</span><span></span></p>

<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Christine Parker is a Professor of Law at
Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne and Chief Investigator in the
<u><span style="color:blue"><a href="https://apc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.admscentre.org.au%2F&data=05%7C02%7CS.A.Taffel%40massey.ac.nz%7C162b16b48bd1402945cc08ddda0df6d6%7C388728e1bbd0437898dcf8682e644300%7C0%7C0%7C638906475706831651%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=sOjY%2BAT84sSoxaWJRabcyIIN6tESK1l7eibMPlZwpaE%3D&reserved=0" style="color:rgb(70,120,134);text-decoration:underline">ARC
Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making and Society</a></span></u>.
 Christine teaches and researches socio legal approaches to lawyers’
ethics, business regulation  and corporate accountability. </span><span></span></p>

<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Sy Taffel<b> </b>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.</span><span></span></p>

<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">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, <u><span style="color:blue"><a href="https://apc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fperc.ac.nz%2Fwordpress%2Fenvironmental-futures-seminar-series&data=05%7C02%7CS.A.Taffel%40massey.ac.nz%7C162b16b48bd1402945cc08ddda0df6d6%7C388728e1bbd0437898dcf8682e644300%7C0%7C0%7C638906475706845547%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=kCwstVA343je0HsA28z%2B5zao7MS5PWZYWBw7512FaSc%3D&reserved=0" style="color:rgb(70,120,134);text-decoration:underline">visit
this webpage</a></span></u></span><span></span></p>

<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt"> Ngā mihi nui,</span><span></span></p>

<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Sy Taffel and Alice Beban (PERC co-directors)</span><span></span></p>





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