This paper proposes the concept of Complicit Praxis as a theoretical and methodological framework for research critically engaged with extractive technologies within temporal convergent maelstrom of climate chaos and AI proliferation. This praxis enables research on AI and geo-political infrastructures from within the system. Engaging Donna Haraway's situated knowledge and her imperative to 'stay with the trouble',[1] Yuk Hui's cosmotechnics,[2] and Alison Kafer's crip futurity.[3] Within the current autoethnographic and practice-based research at the intersection of AI collaboration, climate crisis, and crip-queer technoscience, this paper argues that the fantasy of ‘clean hands’ pure, exterior critique is not only impossible but epistemologically incoherent.[4] Complicit Praxis designates the intellectual condition of working from within damaged systems, insisting that the act of naming complicity constitutes a critical accountable intervention. The argument metastasis the abandonment of denial though the autoethnographic praxis of AI collaboration. Through conversation with Anthropic’s ‘Claude AI’ and the development of two AI-enabled applications, currently on the Base 44 stack, 'Climate Chaos Cruise' and 'Crip-Queer Scholar' which function as futurative methodological testbeds for the framework. The paper seeds complicit praxis within the convergent temporalities of climate chaos and artificial intelligence with systemic negative panic as a understanding public non-response, and the situated epistemics of crip-queer technoscience. It proposes this constellation as foundational theory for a practice-based doctoral research programme concerned with AI as a forensic mirror of the human endgame.
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