At the International Conference on “Responsible AI” hosted by the Munich Centre for Responsible AI Technologies, held on April 8-10 2025, Sabina Leonelli delivered a keynote on “AI for Democratic Societies” tackling questions of inequity and discrimination in relation to research development, the spread of misinformation and more broadly the imagination of AI underpinning specific ways of using computational technology for science (distinguishing between ‘convenient’ approaches to AI and the different framing provided by Environmental Intelligence).