Uploaded September 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
This talk is part of our semi-regular SR talk series and the first mobilization talk for our October actions in Germany. To sign up for upcoming talks, visit scientistrebellion.com/sr-talks/. For more information on how get involved with Scientist Rebellion, head over to scientistrebellion.com/how-to-join/.
Introduction (00:00)
Dr. Winfried Wolf's talk (01:28)
Q&A (41:05)
SR Talk (01:07:26)
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Abstract: The transport sector in Germany has long been an important focus for climate movements: let alone the fact that Germany is the only country without a highway speed limit, the introduction of small incentives to use public transport such as the 9-euro ticket made a non-negligible impact on the sector emissions. Why is it so important to deal with the transport sector? How do we connect social and environmental struggles? Join our first mobilization talk to discuss with us!
Bio: Winfried Wolf is graduate in political science (FU Berlin 1974) and Dr. phil (TU Hannover 1985). He was a member of the Bundestag (MdB) from 1994 to 2002, elected in Baden-Württemberg for the PDS. Since 2006 he is happy without party and describes himself as an independent radical socialist and utopian, oriented to the ideas of Rosa Luxemburg. Since 2008, he is editor-in-chief of "Lunapark21 - (the) magazine for the critique of the global economy. He is active in the expert group "Bürgerbahn statt Börsenbahn - BsB", in the alliance "Bahn für Alle - BfA" and in the scientific advisory board of Attac.
This talk is part of our semi-regular SR talk series and the first mobilization talk for our October actions in Germany. To sign up for upcoming talks, visit scientistrebellion.com/sr-talks/. For more information on how get involved with Scientist Rebellion, head over to scientistrebellion.com/how-to-join/.
Introduction (00:00)
Dr. Winfried Wolf's talk (01:28)
Q&A (41:05)
SR Talk (01:07:26)
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Abstract: The transport sector in Germany has long been an important focus for climate movements: let alone the fact that Germany is the only country without a highway speed limit, the introduction of small incentives to use public transport such as the 9-euro ticket made a non-negligible impact on the sector emissions. Why is it so important to deal with the transport sector? How do we connect social and environmental struggles? Join our first mobilization talk to discuss with us!
Bio: Winfried Wolf is graduate in political science (FU Berlin 1974) and Dr. phil (TU Hannover 1985). He was a member of the Bundestag (MdB) from 1994 to 2002, elected in Baden-Württemberg for the PDS. Since 2006 he is happy without party and describes himself as an independent radical socialist and utopian, oriented to the ideas of Rosa Luxemburg. Since 2008, he is editor-in-chief of "Lunapark21 - (the) magazine for the critique of the global economy. He is active in the expert group "Bürgerbahn statt Börsenbahn - BsB", in the alliance "Bahn für Alle - BfA" and in the scientific advisory board of Attac.






![Talk: What Artificial Intelligence Means for Politics, Civil Society, and the Climate
In this talk, Denise Utochkin zooms out of ChatGPT and takes a look at Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a sociotechnical system and political project dating back 70 years.
Denise presents an analysis of AI as an articulation of capitalist, white supremacist, and state violence and demonstrates that many negative side-effects of this set of technologies are not a bug, but a feature. Among them its growing contribution to the climate collapse, its reliance on blood minerals and devalued, traumatizing labour, its gleeful adoption by authoritarian regimes and greedy corporations.
Based on this analysis, Denise argues that as climate activists, we have an imperative to oppose, resist, and refuse AI and that doing so may open up new possibilities for mitigating the worst excesses of the ongoing climate breakdown.
Video recorded 4 June 2025 for Scientist Rebellion Denmark at Greenpeace premises, Njalsgade, Copenhagen. Video recorded and edited by Henning Husum.
REFERENCES FOR SLIDES:
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Similar to photo in article: Denmark’s first AI supercomputer is now operational. (2024-10-23). Novo Nordisk Foundation. https://novonordiskfonden.dk/en/news/denmarks-first-ai-supercomputer-is-now-operational/ (Accessed 2025-06-08).
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Image at top of: Crawford, K., & Joler, V. (2018-09-07). Anatomy of an AI System—The Amazon Echo As An Anatomical Map of Human Labor, Data and Planetary Resources. Anatomy of an AI System. https://anatomyof.ai/ (Accessed 2025-06-08).
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al Hammada, R. (2024). „If I Had Another Job, I Would Not Accept Data Annotation Tasks„: How Syrian Refugees in Lebanon Train AI. In: M. Miceli, A. Dinika, K. Kauffman, C. Salim Wagner, & L. Sachenbacher (eds.), The Data Workers‘ Inquiry. https://data-workers.org/roukaya/. (Accessed 2025-06-09). With CC BY 4.0. license
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Guerra-Pujol, F. E. (2017-11-21). A Bayesian approach to the trolley problem? (Mini-thought experiment). Prior Probability. https://priorprobability.com/2017/11/21/a-bayesian-approach-to-the-trolley-problem-mini-thought-experiment/ (Accessed 2025-06-08). With CC BY-NC 3.0 license
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Data centre power consumption graph from The Big Take. (2024-06-21). AI Is Already Wreaking Havoc on Global Power Systems. Blomberg. https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-ai-data-centers-power-grids/ (Accessed 2025-06-09).
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Image is from the report mentioned in footnote[1]. It has CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license
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The two images can be found in Kirkebæk-Johansson, L. (2025-04-11). Israelsk militær og Det Hvide Hus hopper med på kontroversiel AI-trend. DR. https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/kultur/israelsk-militaer-og-det-hvide-hus-hopper-med-paa-kontroversiel-ai-trend (Accessed 2025-06-09).
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Figure from Wenger, E. (2024). AI produces gibberish when trained on too much AI-generated data. Nature, 631(8022), 742–743. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02355-z
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Degrowth drawing originates from https://degrowth.info/es/blog/how-to-participate-in-global-degrowth-day. With CC BY-NC 4.0 license.
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Figure from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plum_pudding_model. With CC BY 4.0. license Talk: What Artificial Intelligence Means for Politics, Civil Society, and the Climate](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zNMh-7-npNk/mqdefault.jpg)
