There’s still time to register for Dr. Anne Pasek’s presentation, “A Pessimist’s Guide to ‘AI’: Hype, Bias, Environmental Harms and What to Do About Them” on Wed. March 5th at 11am PST on Zoom, which is part of our AI Exploration Series.
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.