Our Approach to AI
INSIGHT
As an organisation we do not use AI tools in our work.
For collaborators, we request that AI is not used in the delivery of our work together. When it has been used, we ask for transparency so that we can pay extra attention to the content, sources and coherence of it in our work together.
We outline below the three main reasons we are not engaging with this technology in its current form and context. We hope you take time to consider this position.
We cannot currently separate the technology of AI from the expansion of its industry through surveillance and militarisation, the rise and political influence of the main AI tool’s billionaire owners and their direct role in the rise of fascism around the globe. Our work is directly in opposition to this.
The material, land, water and life cost of the expansion of the AI and data centres is far too great for us to overlook. The industry is exploitative and extractive of both humans and land. Our work is rooted in the abolition of systems that create and enable the relentless destruction of life and ecosystems.
Our work is in nurturing, cultivating and protecting intelligences beyond AI. We deeply value the knowledges that are alive and active through the process of research and learning, lived experience, oral tradition, culture and practice, communality and conversations. We commit to leaning into the intelligence of our ecosystems over the technologies that harm them.
Further resources:
Manifesto on AI jeopardising the transition
Land and Water implications of AI
Labour Exploitation in Tech Age
Watch (in conversation with Joycelyn Longdon): Can AI Save the Planet or Is It Making Things Worse?