📌Save the date!
We are organizing a symposium on "AI & Democracy" (in German).
We will critically discuss the effects of AI on democratic ideals.
📆 When & Where
01. October 2026 (9–16h), Berlin in cooperation with the @ECDF
Funded by the @bmftr_bund
We talk a lot about how much resources AI consumes. But this neglects a deeper problem.
Even perfectly efficient AI would still reproduce the values that caused the climate crisis in the first place: extraction, technological progress, productivity, and the prioritization of profit over collective well-being.
I spoke to @jackmcgovan at Sower about why the real climate impact of AI goes beyond resource consumption.
Find the piece here:
https://www.sower.world/ai-resource-climate-systems/
We talk a lot about how much resources AI consumes. But this neglects a deeper problem.
Even perfectly efficient AI would still reproduce the values that caused the climate crisis in the first place: extraction, technological progress, productivity, and the prioritization of profit over collective well-being.
I spoke to @jackmcgovan at Sower about why the real climate impact of AI goes beyond resource consumption.
Find the piece here:
https://www.sower.world/ai-resource-climate-systems/
📌Save the date!
We are organizing a symposium on "AI & Democracy" (in German).
We will critically discuss the effects of AI on democratic ideals.
📆 When & Where
01. October 2026 (9–16h), Berlin in cooperation with the @ECDF
Funded by the @bmftr_bund
AI is not just burning the planet. It is upholding a world in which climate action becomes impossible.
Climate apathy is not a political failure. It is the result of an AI-driven social order. It is not a bug, but a feature.
Find a very short version of this here:
https://kingsdh.net/2026/02/27/a-social-critique-of-ai-amid-the-climate-crisis/
Currently @ @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social as Visiting Research Fellow. Working in new spaces & seeing what ideas emerge where the PhD thesis used to be.
Thanks Sebastián Lehuedé for hosting. If you're around King's and want to talk political economy, critical theory, climate/AI please reach out!
🎉 Exciting news: I submitted my dissertation start of January.
Title: "AI and the Climate Crisis - A Social Critique"
I argue that AI's real climate damage isn't resource use. AI restructures the way we relate to each other and the world. It makes our extractive order feel natural & inevitable.
Apparently this requires restating:
We should not want a European Palantir.
We should not want an open-source Palantir.
We should not want a non-commercial Palantir.
If it is supposed to do what Palantir does, we should not want it.
And I don't care to what extent Palantir's products are shaped by political or profit motives. We know enough to reject its logic altogether.
On my way to #SustainableAI conference @ IWE, University of Bonn
Tomorrow I will give a talk on AI & the #Climate Crisis, discussing AI‘s promises of control and its antirelational character.
If you are there, I would love to connect! Please say hi, or write me :)
📢 ✨ About two months ago I was on The Data Fix podcast @melhogan.bsky.social
We talked about the contradictions “sustainable AI” and its illusionary promises of control.
Listen here 👇
https://pca.st/ewnpxizm
Aline Blankertz