Paul Schütze

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AI & Climate | Social Philosophy @ Ethics & Critical Theories of AI, Uni Osnabrück - (he/him)
https://paulschuetze.de

📌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/

The real climate impact of AI goes beyond resource consumption

Not only is AI harming our environment directly, it’s promoting the values that got us into the climate crisis in the first place.

Sower

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/

The real climate impact of AI goes beyond resource consumption

Not only is AI harming our environment directly, it’s promoting the values that got us into the climate crisis in the first place.

Sower

📌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

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