The event "Can Artificial Intelligence Help Counter Hate? Decoloniality and Online Extreme Speech / Pode a IA ajudar a combater o ódio? Decolonialidade e discurso extremo online). Departing from a technocentric perspective, this lecture will present the theory of “extreme speech”, highlighting the serious consequences of the “normality” of hate in contemporary digital environments and its deep roots in the enduring structures of coloniality. The lecture will be based on the “Extreme” chapter of the recently published book, “Digital Unsettling: Decoloniality and Dispossession in the Age of Social Media” (co-authored with Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan, New York University Press, 2023) and the article, “Ethical Scaling for Content Moderation: Extreme Speech and the (In)Significance of Artificial Intelligence” (co-authored with Antonis Maronikolakis and Axel Wisiorek, Big Data & Society). Sahana Udupa is Professor of Media Anthropology at the University of Munich (LMU München), where she founded the For Digital Dignity program, with an international network of researchers, policymakers and civil society groups to imagine and promote spaces for online political expression line collaboratively. There will be online streaming.