Critical Thinking in the Age of AI:

Ana Valdivia of the Oxford Internet Institute on the physical supply chain behind generative AI — mineral extraction, chip manufacturing, data centres, and the electronic waste at the far end. Her argument is that you cannot reason about AI governance without looking at where the materials come from and who lives next to the consequences.

A roundtable rather than a lecture, chaired by Javier Andreu-Perez of Essex, at the Instituto Cervantes near Holborn. Free. Relevant if you are working on sustainability reporting or procurement and keep being asked what the environmental footprint of your AI stack actually is.