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AI and the Politics of Extraction

November 20, 2025, 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm

Royal Bank Cinema (Chan Centre, UBC) and ZOOM
Hosted by the UBC Centre for Climate Justice

The rapid spread of AI raises growing climate justice concerns. Resource extraction to build and power data infrastructure affects ecosystems and communities, and data monetization raises complex political and ethical issues. How do we face these challenges going forward? 

Join professors Naomi Klein, Stephanie Dick, Wendy Wong, and Hamish van der Ven for a free expert panel discussion, moderated by Carol Liao. 

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We acknowledge that UBC’s campuses are situated within the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.

Climate Solutions Research Collective

UBC receives support for managing its research enterprise from the federal Research Support Fund.

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