Somya Joshi
Stockholm Environment Institute
Somya Joshi (she/her) is Head of Division – Global Agendas, Climate and Systems at SEI Headquarters, focusing on bridging science and policy for sustainable development and challenging entrenched narratives of extractivism and colonialism, particularly in technology disruption.
She has over 15 years of leadership roles in science, policy frontiers advocating for decarbonisation, global goals and using futures thinking to bring about systemic change. From a PhD in Manchester in local regeneration, to a postdoc at Cambridge on global development organisations and information flows, Somya is part of the leadership of a top global think tank. Somya heads the AI taskforce at SEI and is currently exploring how to balance the echoes of the past with the promises of the future.
session description
From land to data grab, catastrophic water & energy footprints to entrenched asymmetries of power, access and ownership of the risks and rewards of AI…how are new forms of imperialism challenging our very understanding of what it means to be human, and how to thrive within planetary boundaries?
Somya will share her work bridging the worlds of science and technology innovation with that of policy, slower governance processes, and just, green, resilient transitions. In her presentation in the Late-Stage Digitalisation session, she’ll explore the latest in the resource frontiers of AI, and the implications for equity, sustainable development and democracy in light of current and future developments of artificial intelligence.