Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Leonie Bossert, University of Vienna
Bio: Dr. Leonie Bossert is a normative ethicist and political philosopher with a background in landscape ecology. She currently works at the University of Vienna in the Philosophy of Technology group and is an associated member of the Center for Technology and Environmental Ethics Prague, and co-coordinator of the European Network of the
International Society for Environmental Ethics. Her expertise lies at the intersection of
environmental and technology ethics, with a strong focus on how disruptive technologies,
such as AI or climate engineering, impact the non-human world. She has published
pioneering articles on this topic.
Talk: Conservation AI: Norms, Values and Realities
Abstract: AI technologies are increasingly being employed in domains that affect ecological systems, such as nature conservation, climate change mitigation, and the assessment of genetic stocks in specific regions. These applications entail both benefits and risks, which require ethical evaluation. How they are evaluated highly depends on the underlying norms and values applied. This talk will focus on the ethical benefits and risks of so-called Conservation AI, as well as the values and norms to which it is often tied. These are discussed from a perspective of justice, which also links to the debate on sustainable AI. As a paradigmatic example of Conservation AI, one that assigns significant value to natural language, the use of AI aimed at decoding animal communication is analyzed. The presentation invites a nuanced consideration of this AI application and highlights the justice-relevant connections of Conservation AI, Sustainable AI, and “AI for Animals”.
| TIME | SESSION |
|---|---|
| 14:00 – 14:10 | Opening & Welcome |
| 14:10 – 14:55 | Keynote Speech: Conservation AI: Norms, Values and Realities Leonie N. Bossert, University of Vienna |
| 14:55 – 15:10 | Retrieving Climate Change Disinformation by Narrative Max Upravitelev, Veronika Solopova, Charlott Jakob, Premtim Sahitaj, Sebastian Möller, Vera Schmitt |
| 15:10 – 15:25 | Unsupervised GRI-TCFD Alignment with LLM-Assisted Validation for Climate Disclosure and Greenwashing Risk Analysis Seyed Alireza Mousavian Anaraki, Danilo Croce, Roberta Costa, Luigi Tiburzi, Armando Calabrese, Roberto Basili |
| 15:25 – 15:40 | Towards Empowering Consumers through Sentence-level Readability Scoring in German ESG Reports Benjamin Josef Schüßler and Jakob Prange |
| 15:40 – 15:55 | Disambiguating Geographic Names in Biodiversity Occurrence Data: A Retrieval-Augmented Generation Approach Yanni Jose C Ella, Monica Ashley R Laviste, John Michael L Lastimoso, Wilfred John E Santiañez, Riza Batista-Navarro, Roselyn Santos Gabud |
| 16:00 – 16:50 | Poster Session & Coffee Break Sentiment and Stance in EFL Responses to AI-Generated Environmental Content Andry Sophocleous What Stories Do Language Models Tell About Nature? A Multi Layer Evaluation Framework for Ecological Alignment Jorge Vallego, Eleanor Tiernan, Mah Rukh, Mariana Roccia, Sabina Fiebig Lord Ecological Discourse Modeling in a Low-Resource Setting: A Longitudinal Vietnamese Climate Corpus with Comparative Topic Modeling Huyen Phuong Nguyen Greench-v1: distilling SLMs on Greenwashing Detection Federico Raspanti, Alessandro Pietro Bardelli Bardelli, Simona Scala, İrem Demirtaş, Marilena Di Bari, Michele Filannino Analyzing Environmental Discourse through Construction-Based Pattern Extraction Elisa Chierchiello, Eliana Di Palma, Ludovica Pannitto, Cristina Bosco Mapping the Historical Ecology of the Cyclades: A Diachronic Natural Language Processing Analysis of Travel Narratives (1700–1920) Aikaterini Christopoulou, Vassilis Detsis, Basilis Gatos |
| 17:00 – 17:15 |
Retrieving Floods without Floodlights: Topic Models as Binary Classifiers for Extreme Climate Events in German News Brielen Madureira, Mariana Madruga de Brito, Andreas Niekler |
| 17:15 – 17:25 |
Why Is This Green? LLM-Based Explanations of Implicit Green Practices in Social Media Anna Glazkova, Olga Zakharova, Daria Lebedeva |
| 17:25 – 17:40 |
Introducing a Green Leaderboard for Sustainable Risk Prediction in Streaming NLP Shared Tasks Alba María Mármol-Romero, Adrián Moreno Muñoz, Arturo Montejo-Raez |
| 17:40 – 17:55 |
Not Everything Is Greenwashing: Limitations of Automatic Analysis of Sustainability Reports, and a Proposal Maria Pilar Uribe Silva, Rik van Noord, Malvina Nissim |
| 17:55 – 18:00 | Closing Remarks |
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