Resisting GenAI & Big Tech in Higher Education

8 a.m. PST | 11 a.m. EST | 4 p.m. GMT | 5 p.m. CET Virtual on Zoom / Duration 90 min.

Generative AI is permeating higher education in many different ways—it is all around us and increasingly embedded in university work and life, even if we don’t want to use it. But people are also sounding the alarm: Gen AI is disrupting learning and undermining trust in the integrity of academic work, while its energy consumption, use of water, and rapid expansion of data centers are exacerbating ecological crises. What can we do? How do we resist?

Come learn about the environmental, social, economic, and political threats that AI poses and how we can individually and collectively resist and refuse. Come learn about how some are challenging the narrative of inevitability. Join an interactive discussion with international scholars and activists on resisting GenAI and big tech in higher education.

Inputs from multiple scholar-activists including Christoph Becker (U of Toronto, CA), Mary Finley-Brook (U of Richmond, USA), Dan McQuillan (Goldsmiths U of London, UK), Sinéad Sheehan (University of Galway, Ireland) Jennie Stephens (National University of Ireland Maynooth, IE), and Paul Lachapelle (U of Montana, USA).

Co-sponsored by:

• Climate Justice Universities Union
• Climate Campus Network