# Tension & Ethics AI adoption brings responsibilities concerning environmental impacts, labour, ownership, privacy and trust. This theme examines those responsibilities as part of designing and governing practice, helping connect our experiments with the conditions under which their benefits and costs should be judged. ### [[Is universities’ AI embrace undermining their net-zero targets?]] An investigation examines tensions between universities’ AI adoption and climate commitments, focusing on energy and water use, emissions accounting and the need for environmental accountability. ### [[Lessons from Workers Governing Technologies]] Accounts of collective organising across creative and technology sectors show how workers can influence AI deployment, defend authorship and employment, and shape the terms of technological change. ### [[The Great AI Art Heist]] A report on the University of Chicago’s Glaze and Nightshade projects explores artists’ resistance to unauthorised AI training and the struggle to protect creative work. ### [[Talk, Trust, and Trade-Offs_How and Why Teens Use AI Companions]] A survey of teenagers examines their use of AI companions, trust and personal disclosure, raising questions about digital literacy, relationships and safeguarding. ### [[Using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment]] Andy Masley challenges common claims about the environmental cost of individual chatbot use, offering a counterpoint that encourages closer scrutiny of emissions estimates and the scale of impacts. ## Further Reading: [[Further Reading - Tension & Ethics]]