Critical Legal AI Literacies: Anne Pasek on "Legal AI as Trash: The Environmental & Informational Pollution of Machine Learning Tools"

The Lillian Goldman Law Library, through the generous support of the Oscar M. Ruebhausen Fund at Yale Law School, is pleased to present Critical Legal AI Literacies. This speaker series seeks to expose the Yale Law community and the legal field to alternative perspectives on AI and the law that are grounded in empirical evidence and critical considerations about the development, use, and impact of generative AI.

The fourth speaker in this series was Anne Pasek, Canada Research Chair in Media, Culture & the Environment at Trent University. Speaking to the Yale Law community on October 7, 2025, Professor Pasek discussed the environmental and informational externalities of generative AI and its use in the legal field.