Who Shapes the Future? Indigenous Knowledge, Political Affect and AI
About this Event
How do political attachments, technological power and competing understandings of knowledge shape responses to the climate crisis? A conversation at LSE with Brazilian writer, lawyer and social anthropologist Fernanda Gebara on affective, artificial and ancestral intelligences and their implications for forest governance, Indigenous rights and development.
Lula’s victory has been widely welcomed as good news for the Amazon and Indigenous peoples. But the high stakes of this election leave us with an urgent question: what drives the political choices that ultimately shape the fate of forests?
Join Dr Fernanda Gebara for a conversation on three forms of intelligence — and what they mean for forest governance, Indigenous rights and development:
Affective intelligence: why fear, identity and belonging can draw people towards political narratives that undermine the very forests and territories they depend on.
Artificial intelligence: how AI depends on land, water, minerals, energy and often-hidden labour, and how its growing use of digital sequence information from biodiversity raises urgent questions about Indigenous rights, consent and control over traditional knowledge.
Ancestral intelligence: an ethical and relational framework, grounded in Indigenous teachings, that asks whose knowledge informs public decisions, who benefits from technological development, and who bears its environmental and territorial costs.
Based on her forthcoming book, Chanting Spring: Indigenous Wisdom for Ancestral Futures, and part of the Chanting for Ancestral Futures event series.
📍 Room CKK.2.13
London School of Economics - Main Campus
Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE
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