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I\u2019m surrounded by one and a half million books: knowledge from every conceivable discipline, stories from all over the world. I\u2019m sitting in Amsterdam\u2019s OBA, one of the largest public libraries in Europe. An impressive building, it was designed to provide free access to knowledge, but do we really need places like this when everything is apparently available online? If the major AI companies have their way, we won\u2019t be turning to libraries for world knowledge much longer, we\u2019ll all be using chat interfaces.\u00a0<\/p>

Of course, you shouldn\u2019t believe everything you hear. In January, I began an event series with my organisation, SUPERRR, to challenge some of the myths around artificial intelligence. AI: Power, Myths, Misunderstandings has already brought together more than 500 people to speak about digital power structures and a future worth living for: school pupils and pensioners, teachers and entrepreneurs, sceptics and enthusiasts. We decided to go into libraries, with a view to reaching people of all ages and levels of prior knowledge.\u00a0<\/p>

We were warned that critical engagement with AI would be too complex for anyone outside of tech policy. Yet the specialist audiences and decision makers to whom our consultation programs were previously catered had long since become disillusioned. For years, new European regulations are negotiated, only to be watered down, and ultimately sacrificed to the economic and political threats of the United States. I am now convinced that if the political process is so fragile and so susceptible to lobbying and power games, then the change will have to take shape somewhere else. It won\u2019t be in the conference rooms of Washington, Brussels, and Silicon Valley, but in local districts, neighbourhoods \u2013 and libraries.<\/p>

Europe has 68,000 public libraries. In our increasingly fragmented societies, they are among the few places still accessible to everyone. They host readings and exhibitions, coding courses, language workshops, theatre performances, and public debates. People come together to read, exchange, or simply to spend time with one another. Libraries are the social infrastructure for learning, for encounters, and for democratic participation, exactly the arenas that artificial intelligence is putting under strain.\u00a0<\/p>

At the OBA in Amsterdam, I find myself surrounded by hundreds of librarians who have travelled here for a conference as part of the European Cultural Foundation\u2019s \u201cLibraries for Europe\u201d programme. The focus is on the future of their institutions. Our SUPERRR event on AI myths has struck a chord, and the room is packed. Ultimately, no one wants to miss the boat or to be among those who sleep their way into the future.<\/p>

We begin by interrogating some familiar narratives \u2013 \u201cAI will take your jobs\u201d, \u201cAI is the future\u201d, \u201cAI cannot be stopped\u201d \u2013 before quickly turning to the ecological footprint of large language models. The topic is very relevant here given that Amsterdam is home to one of the biggest internet hubs in the world. Yet with network capacity already stretched, approval for new infrastructure is not generally given. \u00a0Why, then, is an enormous private data centre, a so-called hyperscaler, currently under construction in the west of the city? Experts are pointing to the use of legal loopholes.\u00a0<\/p>

Speaking at our event, Dutch academic Corinne Cath put the scale of the data centre into perspective, explaining that it could end up consuming as much electricity as the whole of Amsterdam. Indeed, should the Hyperscaler join the grid, capacity for the construction of ten thousand new homes and public buildings would disappear. Amsterdam thus exemplifies what can happen when private infrastructure takes precedence over public infrastructure. If the common good is no longer a priority, everyone will be affected by the consequences of the AI hype.<\/p>

Resistance is mounting, however, and of all places in the USA, the heartland of the AI giants. While investment in AI is at an all-time high and new data centres are appearing all over the country, public opposition is on the rise. People are pushing back against the water shortages, air pollution, rising land prices, and power outages. And they\u2019re having an impact. In 2025 alone, projects worth more than $60 billion were halted or delayed within the space of a few months, and not by regulatory authorities or expert committees but by local initiatives. People from across the political spectrum are joining forces and fighting for a common cause.\u00a0<\/p>

The AI hype is not going to fade anytime soon. Billions more will be invested, and grand promises will be made. But as long as there are places where people can come together and discuss these developments, where dissent can form, the future will not be exclusively decided upon by corporations and experts. The future is not a niche topic. It is a democratic responsibility. Indeed, the most important question when it comes to artificial intelligence is not technological: what kind of society do we want to live in? If we want a future built on knowledge, exchange and participation, then libraries \u2013 as hubs of democracy \u2013 are indispensable.

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Coming to you from Pauli<\/a>, our community and events manager, and Larissa<\/a>, our design and communication lead.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Last week, we shared a recap of our recently co-hosted Regenerative Feminist Tech Dinner<\/a>.\u00a0Today, we want to open up about our process, thoughts, and aspirations. Let\u2019s take a closer look at the format of this evening, the relationships we want to enable with it, and how we went about it.<\/p>

We hosted the dinner during re:publica<\/a>, as a lot of wonderful people who work on similar topics from different backgrounds and perspectives come together in Berlin that week. As my colleague Zara wrote<\/a>, \u201cFor us [here at SUPERRR], a big part of working towards better and more feminist futures involves working across silos and spaces, building bridges and inviting people with different perspectives to deepen our understanding of the topics we, and those in our networks, work on.\u201d So this moment was a great opportunity to connect people who brought perspectives from different local contexts but all work to resist and re-imagine exploitative tech infrastructures in their own ways.<\/p>

But what does it actually take to build those bridges? How can we best support people in getting beyond the small talk and into deeper, more meaningful conversations? And why does any of that even matter?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>

The Plan<\/h2>\n
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We were aware that especially for people who have traveled from far to attend an immense conference such as re:publica, energy levels and social batteries might be running low.\u00a0So instead of planning a regular networking event \u2013 which so often is more draining then regenerative \u2013 we came up with the idea of hosting this Regenerative Tech Dinner. While we wanted to speak with our guests about regenerative feminist technologies, one\u00a0main intention was to not just talk about regeneration in a purely cognitive way, but to transform the dinner itself into a space that is regenerative for body and spirits of our guests.<\/p>

How does one go about creating a space that enables us all to embody glimpses of the futures we are dreaming of?<\/p>\n<\/div>

THE INGREDIENTS<\/h2>\n

Food<\/strong>.<\/p><\/h3>\n

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One ancient regenerative technology, so to speak, is sharing food<\/strong>: coming together to break bread\u00a0can break down social barriers, the aromas activate our senses, and the nourishment supports our nervous systems to settle into a state of relaxation, which allows for more open social engagement.\u00a0<\/p>

Speaking of regeneration, it was important for us to think about the wider ecosystems we are part of as consumers: remembering the planet, animals, and all the people who are visibly and\u00a0 invisibly involved in producing the ingredients of our dinner.\u00a0So it felt particularly nourishing that the food was prepared with seasonal and vegetarian ingredients, and with a lot of care by Tracey Harker and her team (among them her mother), who welcomed us at her newly opened restaurant BOMA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Welcome people as they are.<\/strong><\/p><\/h3>\n

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Another aspiration for us was to make each of our guests feel welcome exactly the way they are. While this might sound simple, it\u2019s an ideal that is not easy to reach in the context we move in. Especially in professional settings, most of us have learned that our exhaustion, grief, and vulnerability are not welcome, and that we have to mask them in order to be allowed to join, or to stay. Many of us embody protection and guarding strategies so well because we depend on them for navigating every day life in environments that are the opposite of welcoming to certain bodies, identities, and behaviors \u2013 so we can\u2019t simply switch to an internal state of feeling unconditionally welcome\u00a0when most of our lives we were taught that we\u2019re not.\u00a0<\/p>

That\u2019s why we made sure to put a special focus on this in the language we used in the original invitations, when greeting out guests individually when they arrived, and\u00a0the welcoming words we shared at the start of the evening.\u00a0But it takes more than words: As hosts, we play an important role in inviting vulnerability by example and by creating an infrastructure of care.<\/p>\n<\/div>

Hearing and Meeting needs.<\/strong><\/p><\/h3>\n

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For example, making people feel welcome also includes asking about their accessibility and dietary needs and being ready to put in the effort to make those needs met. For us, that looked like offering vegan, allergy-friendly, and non-alcoholic options \u2013 and putting them on the menu by default. We also brought an audio system to the space, so that speakers could use microphones and make it easier for others at the opposite end of the room, to hear what was happening.<\/p>

We were also intentionally giving people orientation about the program and space so they can care for themselves how and when they need to \u2013 and had an awareness policy and code of conduct in place for when they needed support.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Offer guidance without pressure.<\/h3>\n
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We designed the program in a way that guests could let themselves be taken by the hand: they had to make as few decisions as possible, while always having the freedom to choose what is right for them.<\/p>

We\u00a0assigned seating places, which took away the mental load of having to choose whom to sit next to among a group of people you don\u2019t know \u2013 noting that one of the main goals of the dinner was to bring together people who might not know many, or any, other people in the room. Days before the dinner we shared a conversation prompt with our guests, inviting them to bring an object that would portray their answer. More conversation prompts decorated our table in forms of colorful origami paper flowers \u2013 an invitation to unfold their way to moments of connection and conversation. Those prompts invited them to \u201cbreak the ice\u201d,\u00a0 enter different levels of connection, and have an overall easier time sharing conversations. We hoped that offering this kind of guidance took some kind of stress away that can often be experienced in more standard networking events.<\/p>\n<\/div>

Attention to Details: Event Design and Materials<\/strong><\/p><\/h3>\n

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The biggest learning for us was (again) that what seems like small details makes a big difference: showing that we care through handwritten notes for each guest, little gift boxes with meaningful content that extended the theme of regeneration to our relationship with plants, printed out menu cards so people knew what to expect, beautifully designed invitations, or taking the time to think about meaningful prompts and then fold them into origami flowers.<\/p>

Especially in a time where \u201chuman-made\u201d has become rare through the rise of AI generated everything, we wanted to put as much care and thought as possible into the materials supporting the evening. Designing with intention plays a huge part in SUPERRRs strategy, so a generic goodie bag and printed seat tags just wouldn\u2019t cut it. Every gift, every note had to carry a purpose:<\/p>

Guests found a small cardboard box with their name handwritten on it, placed on a plate. That way, the gift already served as a place card \u2013 two birds with one stone! We wanted to gift our guests something that will make them feel appreciated, remind them of the topic of this dinner, and offer regeneration for themselves, but also the planet. Scented body oil with lavender \u2013 a plant kin that has a soothing effect on our nervous systems \u2013 and seed bombs to plant native flowers is what we settled on \u2013 and so our office turned into an apothecary for one afternoon, and also smelled lovely for the rest of the week. Everybody wins.<\/p>

Printed menu cards not only support the decor, but also serve another important purpose of the evening. Imagine this: You arrive at a networking event. You have never been at the restaurant, you don\u2019t know anyone. You\u2019re already in your head thinking about how to act, what to say, what to do with your hands. And for some people, not knowing what will be served is just another stressor. On the theme of making this event a calming and regenerative space, we wanted to make it as easy as possible for people to get the answers they needed, so they would have space for the big questions of the evening \u2013 \u00a0easily solved with menu cards.<\/p>

We already talked about the why of conversation prompts. The how went hand in hand with our intention of putting effort and a human touch into everything. We printed the prompts on origami paper and spent a good amount of time folding lotus flowers. Therefore not only the answering of the prompt broke the ice, but also trying to unfold it, which was trickier than we expected!<\/p>

All these details underline the care with which we approached the time our guests were investing in returnand made this a truly beautiful evening.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Funding, of course.<\/strong><\/p><\/h3>\n

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Putting in all this care was only possible because we were coming from a well-resourced place: we had the big privilege of having funding for this Feminist Tech Dinner (a big thank you again to Heinrich B\u00f6ll Foundation!) which made it so much easier to invest the time and material that went into this infrastructure.<\/p>

We\u2019re grateful for that support, and for the people who showed up: we all see, far too often, that care work is structurally underpaid and undervalued. For us at SUPERRR, we believe it is a center piece to strengthen our movements and to co-create the futures we are dreaming of. It was our pleasure to be able to do that work from a place of abundance rather than scarcity.<\/p>

Let\u2019s be careful with each other so we can be dangerous together!<\/p>\n<\/div>\t

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Last week, together with collaborators at Green Web Foundation<\/a>, we co-hosted a Regenerative Feminist Tech Dinner<\/strong>, an intimate event format designed to bring people from different spaces, communities and sectors together for an evening of deep and nourishing conversations.<\/p>

Here at SUPERRR, we believe strongly that there\u2019s nothing inevitable about the current extractive ways that tech is being developed; and that we have more agency than perhaps billionaires and those in power would like us to realise, to change those futures.<\/p>

For us, a big part of working towards better and more feminist futures involves working across siloes and spaces, building bridges and inviting people with different perspectives to deepen our understanding of the topics we, and those in our networks, work on. That\u2019s a big part of the motivation for us to host Feminist Tech Dinners. We\u2019ve found over and over again that sharing food together and bringing a level of intentionality and care to the space opens up the possibility for deeper conversations than we find at regular networking events.<\/p>

In preparation for the dinner, we asked all invitees to consider this question:<\/p>\n<\/div>

\n Where have you experienced glimpses of a more just and life-affirming relationship with technology\u2014and how might those moments guide us in resisting extractive systems and building alternatives together?\n \n \n <\/cite>\n<\/blockquote>
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With the theme of regeneration<\/strong> at the centre, we talked about a wide range of topics. Data centres were a central topic, and how they represent exploitation in the physical and digital realm, taking up huge amounts of land and resources. They lay the groundwork for a very specific type of future in which compute power, unlimited growth, monopolies and stock markets play a huge role.<\/p>

At the same time, the lack of nuance in the language we use around these topics also came up: as we and many others have written about before, \u2018AI\u2019 has come to mean a lot of very different things, and there\u2019s currently no agreed-upon definition. The same is true of data centres \u2013 are we talking about a small room with a single server, or a massive set of buildings hosting thousands of servers, requiring extensive cooling infrastructure? Without specificity and agreed-upon definitions, it becomes almost impossible to know that we\u2019re talking about the same problem, let alone move towards solving it. The question was raised whether this might be an intentional strategy to obscure the actual structures of power in place.<\/p>

Our dependence upon tech infrastructure coming from deeply problematic sources came up, too: Elon Musk\u2019s Starlink, a system for providing satellite internet, provides internet coverage in areas where governments have intentionally cut terrestrial internet coverage, allowing for communication to the outside world. For some, this is extremely life-affirming: it is absolutely essential, and yet the extremely undemocratic ways in which those satellites are governed and managed (as well as the fascist roots of the owner) remain present.<\/p>

In some ways, this was almost typical of many of the discussions we had: there\u2019s no binary yes\/no, good\/bad, but instead a desire to acknowledge complexity and move through it to find better routes forward, while knowing that compromises will need to be made. That\u2019s true in the way we use tech today on so many levels: from the exploitative conditions behind lithium or cobalt mining, and the horrendous environmental impacts of creating consumer electronics, to the acknowledgment that for some, AI does provide extremely useful functions.<\/p>

The level of investment that is being poured into some of these infrastructures \u2013 whether that be satellite internet or the incredible level of data centre infrastructure that is being built right now \u2013\u00a0 is almost beyond comprehension at this point. It begged the question for some: what\u2019s the role of financial systems and capital in all of this? Often, digital rights work focuses on the end result (the data centres themselves; the satellites; Internet access), which is effectively the downstream impact of decisions made at a much higher level. Might there be more space for advocacy or pushback with those who are deciding on how companies are valued, the level of tolerable risk for infrastructure investments, or more?<\/p>

We were lucky to be joined by activists and organisers from a variety of different countries and communities who highlighted the importance of South-South solidarity and sharing of ideas, particularly given the global nature of many of these issues. Sharing approaches between groups and contexts gave some participants the opportunity to try out ideas from different contexts, and the inspiration for how to adapt these approaches to their contexts.<\/p>

Despite the evening being titled the \u2018Regenerative Feminist Tech Dinner\u2019, it became quickly clear (as ever!) that technology was not at the centre of our discussions. Perhaps one exception to that was with a musing on the actual role of tech in all this. Given the feeling of anti-tech backlash that we\u2019re hearing and seeing on so many levels<\/a> \u2013\u00a0 what, if any, is the role of technologists in helping us rebuild what comes next? Acknowledging the joy that digital technologies once brought to many of us, and a general feeling of having lost that joy\u2013\u00a0 what might be needed to reconcile, recreate or simply acknowledge that those feelings have significantly changed? To reclaim that joy elsewhere, or to redesign and reshape our relationship with technologies to find the fun again?<\/p>

We left the space with lots of food for thought, and with our hearts, minds and stomachs extremely nourished.<\/p>

We\u2019re grateful for support from the Heinrich B\u00f6ll Stiftung<\/a> for the Feminist Tech Dinner, and to Tracey Harker and the team at BOMA<\/a> for providing such a beautiful space and dinner for our group. Here\u2019s to many more dinners in the future!\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>

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In unseren Diskussionen \u00fcber KI-Mythen im Fr\u00fchjahr 2026 kamen viele Quellen zur Sprache. Diese thematisch sortierte Liste beinhaltet die wichtigsten, informativsten und interessantesten Inhalte, sortiert nach Themen, auf deutsch und englisch:<\/p>\n<\/div>

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