Hi all, We are happy to invite you to a one-day conference in Paris organised by the Center for Internet and Society. The schedule is below and the abstracts are attached. The consequences of artificial intelligence (AI) on the environment have garnered attention in public discourse after several publications estimating the water consumption, energy usage and resource depletion caused by the training and operating of AI and large language models (LLMs). Quantification plays an important role in making the materiality of AI perceptible but they do not exhaust the representations of AI’s consequences on the planet. In this conference, we explore the materialities of artificial AI from a wider variety of epistemic perspectives that deepen the comprehension of the multiple facets of AI’s material presence in the world and its consequences. When: Friday, January 31, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm *Where:* CNRS, site Pouchet, 59-61 rue Pouchet, 75017 Paris, FRANCE <https://maps.app.goo.gl/QC6PN5YN25seF6FYA> *Organisation team:* Loup Cellard (Datactivist, médialab Sciences-Po, ADM+S Centre), Valentin Goujon (médialab, Sciences Po), Hugo Estecahandy (IFG Lab, université Paris 8), Théophile Lenoir (University of Milan, médialab, Sciences Po), Adrien Tournier (HT2S, Cnam). A conference organised by the GDR 2091 Internet IA and Society (CNRS, Paris, FR). /// Schedule 09:30 am: Welcome coffee 10 am - 12:50 pm: A critical perspective on the quantification of AI’s environmental footprint. 10 am - 10:30 am: Loup Cellard (Datactivist, medialab Sciences-Po, ADM+S Centre) “Beyond AI as an environmental pharmakon: Principles for reopening the problem-space of machine learning’s carbon footprint,” currently in review in Environment & Planning E (with Christine Parker and Fiona Haines - University of Melbourne) 10:30 am - 10:50 am: Q&A 10:50 am - 11:20 am: Anne-Laure Ligozat (ENSIIE) & Aurélie Bugeau (Bordeaux University), “Can AI’s environmental damage be controlled?” 11:20 am - 11:40 am: Q&A 11:40 am - 12 pm : Break 12 pm - 12:30 pm: Théophile Lenoir (University of Milan), “Evaluating the environmental consequences of AI: Tensions around quantification”, currently in review in Digital Society (with Christine Parker - Melbourne Law School) 12:30 pm - 12:50 pm: Q&A 12:50 pm - 2 pm: Lunch 2 pm - 4:50 pm : Beyond numbers - accounting for the materialities of AI through its geography and infrastructure 2 pm - 2:30 pm: Ana Valdivia (Oxford) “The supply chain capitalism of AI: a call to (re)think algorithmic harms and resistance through environmental lens” 2:30 pm - 2:50 pm: Q&A 2:50 pm - 3:20 pm: Valentin Goujon (médialab, Sciences-Po Paris), “Big Compute as Big Science: (super)computing infrastructures and the “greening” of French AI research”. 3:20 pm - 3:40 pm: Q&A 3:40 am - 4 pm : Break 4 pm - 4:30 pm: Ludovico Rella (Durham, UK), “Between Dark and Green Silicon. Geographies of Cloud and Edge AI” 4:30 pm - 4:50 pm: Q&A 4:50 pm - 5 pm: Concluding remarks -- *Loup Cellard* <http://www.loupcellard.com>Researcher — Datactivist <https://datactivist.coop/en/> (Paris/Marseille) Affiliate at Sciences-Po Médialab <https://medialab.sciencespo.fr/> (Paris) + ADM+S Centre <https://www.admscentre.org.au/> (Melbourne) Editor at Tèque <https://revue-teque.fr/>, a tech criticism journal by Audimat Editions <https://audimat-editions.fr/> (Paris) Email : loupcellard@gmail.com Mobile FR : +33 7 87 00 84 22 Website : loupcellard.com <http://www.loupcellard.com/> Twitter : @CellardLoup <https://twitter.com/CellardLoup>Newsletter : Data Dandysme <https://tinyletter.com/loupcellard>