Resource: Resisting AI

The Climate Justice Universities Union is increasingly concerned with the uncritical adoption of AI tools in and out of universities. Below is a list of resources that have grown over time, that aim to help members counter the inevitability narrative and resist AI. See our ClimateUni Statement on AI.

4^th September 2025:

• 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.

5^th September 2025:

• Guest et al (2025, Sept 5). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. https://zenodo.org/records/17065099

13th September 2025:

• Critical AI Literacy: Empowering people to resist hype and harms in the age of AI — Symposium 2025 ― Radboud University, The Netherlands

13th November 2025:

• 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).

24th November 2024:

• ClimateUni Statement on AI — CJUU Statement on Displacement AI use in Higher Education.

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:

Zoom recording link

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

Ongoing / undated resources:

• Book: Resisting AI An Anti-Fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence. — Dan McQuillan

• Zine: “Getting Into Fights With Data Centres: Or, a Modest Proposal for Reframing the Climate Politics of ICT.” White Paper. Experimental Methods and Media Lab, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario. July 2023.

• Open Letter: https://openletter.earth/open-letter-stop-the-uncritical-adoption-of-ai-technologies-in-academia-b65bba1e?limit=0

• Podcast / Screencast: Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000: https://www.dair-institute.org/maiht3k/ — Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna

• Book: The AI Con https://thecon.ai — Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna

• Book: Empire of AI https://karendhao.com/empire — Karen Hao

• Webpage: Critical AI Literacy https://olivia.science/ai#cail — Olivia Guest