[politelemon]

I've spent a fair amount of time in the Mozilla sphere, but that first question seems alien to me... it's so dense with initiatives or phrases that seem self explanatory to them, that I am questioning if it is real or not.

> How can we apply The Feminist Principles of the Internet and "Perma-Computing" principles to advance climate justice in the African-centric AI space?

I'm not able to make the leap from feminism, to climate justice, to AI. I'd appreciate an explanation if someone is actually closer to this.

[BandButcher]

same, as someone getting a degree in the climate/energy field this particular bullet point makes me cringe:

"How can we address the sustainability of AI, particularly regarding energy and water use, in regions with scarce resources?"

imo this is putting the cart before the horse and speaks to the overall state of the tech industry now... Instead of "How can we address the sustainability of PEOPLE", we first ask, "How can we address the sustainability of AI" wtf lol.

We have plenty of evidence, research, textbooks, and to their point, indigenous knowledge, to do it ourselves, but they think its best to just feed it all into an AI, hope that the AI will spit back out something that solves these problems, all the while trying to make this AI more sustainable because resources are so scarce that even the people don't have enough.

not trying to say this initiative is simply pandering to disenfranchised groups or PR stunt but i don't think they are serious about actual change.

now im wondering if im getting pranked and this is really a test of llm/ai generated "tech event" to harvest registrant info. strange times indeed