The concluding debate brought together Patricia Reed, Niels Shrader, Noviki, Jakub Depczyński, and Krzysztof Pijarski, weaving their perspectives with motifs from Noviki’s Dream of the Machine, Ewelina Węgiel’s Escarpment—an experimental piece investigating regeneration, resistance, and rooted local practices—and Agnieszka Polska’s The Book of Flowers, a short sci-fi film merging AI-powered animation with 16 mm pre-production to imagine an alternative history of human–plant symbiosis across millennia, all screened at the Noorderlicht Biennial – Machine Entanglements (5–6 September 2025).

Patricia Reed highlighted the ethical and ecological stakes of AI, tracing how technological systems co-evolve with natural processes. Niels Shrader examined the materiality of machine-learning infrastructures and their environmental impact, drawing on his Acid Clouds project about data centers and atmospheric effects. Depczyński and Pijarski expanded the discussion with reflections on artistic practice, politics, and the shifting boundaries between human and machine agency.