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Resources: Resisting AI and Big Tech

The Climate Justice Universities Union represents all those concerned with the powerful influence of Big Tech within higher ed and the uncritical adoption of AI tools in and out of universities. By promoting AI, we believe higher education institutions are failing in their public good mission to reduce ecological destruction and climate instability. By legitimising the narrative of inevitability, universities around the world appear to be victims of corporate capture by the Big Tech companies. We support all those working to reclaim the public good mission of higher education by resisting AI and advocating against academic capture by Big Tech.

Here is a compilation of resources that aim to help members counter the inevitability narrative and resist AI. See our ClimateUni Statement on AI.

Resisting AI and Big Tech in Higher Education Resources from our November 25th 2025 webinar compiled by The Just Sustainability Design Lab

Critical AI Literacy Resources. by Olivia Science

Kelly, C., K. Bruisch, and C. Leahy. (2025, Sept 4). We are lecturers in Trinity College Dublin. We see it as our responsibility to resist AI. Irish Times. https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/09/04/opinion-we-are-lecturers-in-trinity-college-we-see-it-as-our-responsibility-to-resist-ai/ NB: This is behind a paywall. Use archive version.

Guest et al (2025). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. https://zenodo.org/records/17065099

  • Critical AI Literacy: Empowering people to resist hype and harms in the age of AI — Symposium 2025 ― Radboud University, The Netherlands
  • Critical AI Literacy Map — developed for a moderated discussion on the Critical Implications of GenAI and Big Tech in Higher Education at the Autumn-Winter CJUU meeting at SETU (Carlow).
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Critical AI Literacy Map
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25th November 2025:

  • Online Global Event: Resisting GenAI and Big Tech in Higher Education with 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)

Recording of the event:

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List of resources published during the 25/11/2025 event:

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