Sustainable AI Futures is a BRAID-UK* project exploring the relationship between AI and the environment -- with special interest in the social life of governance tools, the generation and circulation of knowledge claims, how we imagine alternative futures.
Sustainable AI Futures: Conversations is a series of interviews with researchers, artists, practitioners, and industry experts working across these questions. This series brings together a wide range of perspectives from around the world to shine light on this rapidly evolving topic.
What is the purpose of these Conversations?
The purpose of the interviews is to explore the intersections of AI, society, climate justice, knowledge and the environment through conversations with leading researchers offering insights into their work and research findings.
Who is taking part?
Interviewees include Jamie Dobson (The Cloud Native Attitude), Dan McQuillan (Resisting AI - An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence), Fieke Jansen (Critical Infrastructure Lab, Green Screen Coalition), Patrick Brodie (Wild Tides: Media Infrastructure and Financial Crisis in Ireland), and Ketan Joshi (The AI Climate Hoax).
Where can I watch the series?
Sustainable AI Futures: Conversations are available on the Sussex Digital Humanities Lab You Tube channel. Subscribe to the channel now and be informed as new Conversations are published: https://www.youtube.com/@shlsussexhumanitieslab9132
Sustainable AI Futures: Conversations is led by Iliana Depounti (Bath Spa University) and Jo Lindsay Walton (Sussex Digital Humanities Lab at the University of Sussex).
Iliana is a Research Associate at Sustainable AI Futures. She holds a PhD in Communication and Media from Loughborough University. Her research explores the intersections of artificial intelligence, society, and human–machine communication. Iliana’s work has been published in journals such as Media, Culture & Society, New Media & Society and Human-Machine Communication.
Jo is Principal Research Fellow in Arts, Climate and Technology at the Sussex Digital Humanities Lab. He is the Project co-Lead of Sustainable AI Futures. Jo’s monograph After Capitalism: Speculative Fiction and the End of the End of the World is forthcoming from Lever in 2026.
*Bridging Responsible AI Divides: www.braiduk.org