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Register right here!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dear friends!<\/p>\n

AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, Gemini and others are now used regularly by billions of users worldwide. In just a few years, whether in our private or professional lives, AI has become part of everyday life within just a few years.<\/p>\n

But with daily use, it is also becoming increasingly clear what price we are all really paying for quick queries to chatbots: From the incredible energy hunger<\/b> of ever-larger data centres powered by dirty gas or coal-fired power or crumbling nuclear power plants, to the dangerous flooding of digital space with AI-generated disinformation<\/b>, to the disregard for copyright<\/b> and exploitation of so-called \u2018ghost workers<\/b>\u2019 in the Global South:<\/p>\n

The few AI companies are building their profits on destruction, paired directly with a story of redemption: if we just put enough resources into AI now, then godlike \u2018artificial general intelligence\u2019 (AGI)<\/b> will come along and superhumanly solve climate change, disease and injustice, which it itself has helped to fuel, all controlled, of course, by the same AI companies.<\/p>\n

Because all this is very reminiscent of the empires of the past and present, journalist and author Karen Hao<\/b> has named her new and highly acclaimed book \u201cEmpire of AI\u201d. Over the years, she has followed the path of ChatGPT developer OpenAI and its founder Sam Altman and written a sharp analysis of this AI empire. Karen Hao\u2019s work is not a crude demonisation of AI, but an intelligent critique, with sentences like these:<\/p>\n

\u2018AI is not the problem, but the specific way it is being implemented in Silicon Valley.\u2019<\/i><\/p>\n

In this joint\u00a0 webinar with Europe Calling, Karen Hao will present her book \u2018Empire of AI\u2019 and then discuss with two guests the question of whether Europe can implement AI in a different way that is not based on the exploitation of the climate, the environment and society.<\/p>\n

Dr Michael F\u00f6rtsch<\/b> is the founder and managing director of Q.ANT<\/a>, a deep-tech start-up from Stuttgart\/Germany that develops particularly energy-efficient hardware for AI in order to curb the energy hunger of AI models.<\/p>\n

Alexandra Geese<\/b> is a Member of the European Parliament in the Greens\/EFA group and one of the leading<\/a> policymakers in the field of digital policy in Europe. She is also one of the most important opponents of the tech bros and a fighter for European sovereignty from cloud to AI. Alexandra is a founding board member of Europe Calling and co-organiser of the webinar.<\/p>\n

Date: Tuesday, 13 January 2026, 8:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. CET<\/b><\/p>\n

Register here: LINK<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

With interpretation in German and English.<\/p>\n

Join us and invite others!<\/p>\n

With European regards,<\/p>\n

Alexandra Geese MEP & Maximilian Fries at Europe Calling e.V.<\/p>\n

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