The rapid adoption of machine learning (ML) has come with a significant environmental burden due to increased resource usage, yet such material and environmental impacts of AI are no surprise anymore, especially to the FAccT community. This workshop aims to shift from awareness and transparency to empowerment and action with the understanding that such action will need to be both individual as well as collective. This workshop will interweave this individual vs. collective tension through a round-table discussion that gathers researchers and activists to discuss and inform each other on methods and tactics for supporting environmental action.
Who is this workshop for?
The workshop will bring together various actors interested in the environmental impacts of AI and introducing them to the tools and tactics used ‘on the ground’ to map, measure, understand, and mitigate these various impacts. No prior knowledge is expected!
How to take part?
Register for the online version of the workshop send an email to georgia.panagiotidou@kcl.ac.uk.
In-person participants can register through the FAccT’25 website.
Time/Location
Online and at the Athens Conservatoire,
Jun 24, 2025 @ 3pm - 5:30pm Athens, Greece (UTC +3)
Additional material
- Power, ecology and diplomacy in critical data infrastructures - The ODI
- Allusive Protocols
- Where Cloud Is Ground by Alix Johnson
- Getting into Fights with Data Centres by Anne Pasek
- Energy and AI Observatory – Data Tools - IEA
Organisers
Georgia Panagiotidou, King’s College London
Ben Snaith, Open Data Institute
Aurora Gomez, Tunubesecamirio
Tamara Kneese, Data & Society