AI, Ecology, and the Promise of Green Development
Speaker: Patrick Brodie, , Assistant Professor and Ad Astra Fellow at University College Dublin and author of From the Bog to the Cloud: Dependency and Eco-Modernity in Ireland (2025)
Date & Time: September 25, 10:00–11:30 AM
Location: Leeuwenborch (B0075)
Join us for an insightful talk with Patrick Brodie, who will confront the environmental politics of the “twin transition” by analysing two interlocking, and often contradictory processes: the political ecologies of green resource-making and environmental datafication for climate action. Using the examples of peatland development in Ireland and marine aquaculture in Scotland, he will introduce his ongoing research into how artificial intelligence and cloud-driven technologies are interfacing with development, ecology, and green transitions in rural and coastal geographies.
By doing so, this talk will confront the mounting contradictions of AI’s centrality in eco-modern development, increasingly imagined with monopolistic tech companies as the infrastructural backbone of future societies.
This event is organized by the CSPS political ecology cluster and the Data Exploits Veni/NWO project.
Open to all who are interested!
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