Arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence is no longer just trans­form­ing apps, office work, or search engines. It is increas­ing­ly begin­ning to reshape agri­cul­ture, food sys­tems, biol­o­gy, labour, and even liv­ing organ­isms them­selves. Yet these devel­op­ments are rarely dis­cussed togeth­er. This event series, host­ed by Save Our Seeds togeth­er with peo­ple from the AI, sci­ence, envi­ron­men­tal and civ­il soci­ety com­mu­ni­ties, cre­ates space for exact­ly these con­ver­sa­tions.

Fol­low­ing today’s vote in the Euro­pean Par­lia­ment, there will no longer be any spe­cif­ic safe­ty assess­ments, labelling require­ments for food and feed, or trace­abil­i­ty in the envi­ron­ment for most genet­i­cal­ly mod­i­fied crops. This fail­ure of demo­c­ra­t­ic dis­course on tech­nol­o­gy under­mines the cred­i­bil­i­ty of organ­ised sci­ence and the already lim­it­ed trust in the integri­ty of pol­i­tics.

A ple­nary vote sched­uled for 19 May has been post­poned after MEPs tabled 37 amend­ments to the com­pro­mise deal ham­mered out between nego­tia­tors from Par­lia­ment, Coun­cil and Com­mis­sion in Decem­ber. The delay gives NGOs, busi­ness­es and cit­i­zens more time to pres­sure MEPs to improve the deal.