Sustainability in the Age of Digital Transformation

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Digitalization and the increasing development and use of Artificial Intelligence cause severe social, ecological, and economic effects, e.g. exploitation of humans and nature through mineral extraction, immense carbon emissions caused by digital communication or the training of AI, or the poisonous littering of electronic waste on huge waste dumps in Africa and Asia. There are actors in different societal fields who address these effects and aim at shaping digitalization and AI sustainably, i.e. socially, economically and ecologically just. Among them are scholars from different research fields who cooperate transdisciplinary and transformatively with actors located outside research institutions. One main group of collaboration partners are political activists. The project aims at investigating the practices in transdisciplinary-transformative sciences with which scholars and political activists collaborate to gain knowledge about ways of shaping digitalization and AI sustainably (transdisciplinary) as well as taking an active part in creating both processes sustainably (transformative).