This event, “A Pessimist’s Guide to ‘AI’: Hype, Bias, Environmental Harms and What to Do About Them” with Dr. Anne Pasek is part of BCLA’s on-going AI Exploration Series.
Description: This talk discusses the rise of generative machine learning tools (so-called ‘AI’), their many limitations, and their many environmental harms. It takes the argumentative stance that most so-called AI is trash, both in the quality of the content on offer and the proliferating social and ecological costs of this content. Extending the analogy further, it explores how the AI trash problem is best approached like other waste management problems, namely by pursuing policy and collective action solutions rather than relying on individual awareness or moral judgements about consumer behaviors to do the work.
Who: All library workers
When: Wednesday, March 5th at 11am-12:15pm PST on Zoom
Registration is now closed.
Anne Pasek is an Assistant Professor & Canada Research Chair in Media, Culture, and the Environment at Trent University. She is working on a book about the cultural politics of climate change and why it’s so tricky to make people care about carbon. In her spare time she knits, lifts weights, makes noise music, and tinkers with solar-powered servers.
This online presentation via Zoom includes closed captioning. If you have any accessibility needs to attend this session please contact Natalie Porter, BCLA Professional Development Coordinator in advance and BCLA will do our best to support you. BCLA expects everyone attending to honour the Online Community Guidelines, to help create a positive environment that values accountability, respect, and a willingness to learn from each other.