Ecological crisis and artificial intelligence-environmental impacts of AI.

🎧In this episode Sandra Luna, Gadir Lavandez and Katina Cachiguango invite us to critically reflect on the advance of artificial intelligence and its environmental, social and political implications. Throughout the conversation, they lead us to questionwho these technologies are designed for, what interests sustain their development and under what values they are expanding in the midst of a global ecological crisis.
 

The podcast highlights the enormous energy consumption and ecological footprint implied by the accelerated growth of AI, especially by the expansion of data centers and large-scale digital infrastructures. It also invites us to think about how these technologies can deepen extractivist dynamics, technological dependencies and new forms of social control.

More than assuming technological innovation as an automatic solution to the environmental crisis, the participants propose the need for structural transformations in the models of production, consumption and relationship with nature. Thus, the episode becomes an invitation to critically rethink the place of artificial intelligence within contemporary debates on ecological justice, sustainability and people's autonomy.