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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“AI’s low reliability and accuracy rates in critical environments with life-or-death consequences” are of much greater concern to her than are threats of the technology wiping out humanity, which she calls “fear-mongering”. @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social - well said! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Will AI really kill us all? The science behind the hype

Nature examines whether the technology might spell the end for humans, and why AI companies are calling for a slowdown.

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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Wenn Anthropic & OpenAI an die Börse gehen, werden unsere Pensionskassen in das (proklamierte) "Ende der Menschheit" investieren. Dabei sind sie gesetzlich verpflichtet, den Versicherten die Fortsetzung des gewohnten Lebensstandards zu ermöglichen. www.linkedin.com/posts/doroth...

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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

and if he doesn't believe it, he should be sued for intimidating the population.

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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Unbedingt verbieten! Auch wenn Unternehmen wie Visilab schon in Werbung nach dem Motto "Dioptrie mit Dystopie" machen.

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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"Lost jobs. Lost wages. Widening inequality. Datacenters using up water and electricity and polluting the climate. Vastly more money polluting our politics. Models escaping their cages ... Can we pause for a moment and talk about what’s really happening here?" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Lost jobs, inequality, rogue agents: why are we accepting oligarchs’ AI agenda? | Robert Reich

The dangers of AI become clearer every day. Why are we still acting as if we have no choice about our future?

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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I wrote on LinkedIn about McEwan's book - a look into 2119, where AI plays a marginal role. Why? Because climate change and nuclear war have shrunk the world in terms of space and commodities. Maybe focus on that instead of building pseudosentient robot overlords. www.linkedin.com/posts/doroth...

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#ai #climatecrisis #criticalthinking | Dr. Dorothea Baur

Ian McEwan is one of my favourite authors. But I hesitated reading his latest novel "What We Can Know" for some time. Because I really have no appetite for sci-fi, even less for (even more) climate dy...

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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

For those who don't follow me on LinkedIn. I have read and loved @coeckelbergh.bsky.social's book on self-improvement. It's finally given me rational arguments for my gut feeling which goes totally against this whole wellness capitalism stuff. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

For those who don't follow me on LinkedIn. I have just published a few thoughts on @carissaveliz.bsky.social' great book. Highly recommended! Fearless, funny, and very enlightening! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Sunset over the Tuscan hills, with the silhouette of a tree in the foreground and the sky in shades of orange and blue.

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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Doch, es zieht langsam an... www.tagesanzeiger.ch/beringen-wid...

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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

ah, mega nett, danke! Ich habe das Gefühl, ich tappe im Dunkeln in einem Raum, wo ich nie weiss, wieviele Zuhörer gerade da sind. Schön, echte Resonanz zu spüren! 🙏

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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Für diejenigen, die mir nicht auf LinkedIn folgen. Warum es bei den Protesten gegen Rechenzentren nicht nur um Energie- und Wasserverbrauch geht. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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Simon Hungerbühler @simhung.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Ein lesenswerter Text, mit vielen schlauen Sätzen, wie ich finde. Das ist einer davon: "Denn Steuern sind weder ein Ersatz für Arbeitsplätze noch ein Schmerzensgeld für Emissionen."

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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Vielen Dank! Mal schauen, wie sich das noch weiterentwickelt. Das Thema ist derart vielschichtig!

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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

In Seattle, where Amazon and Microsoft have laid off thousands of tech workers, (the very same?) tech workers are now protesting against new data centers that would consume ca. 1/3 of the city's daily electricity demand. Now a moratorium is in the pipeline. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Seattle poised to ban new datacenters in blow to big tech hub

Measure in Amazon and Microsoft’s backyard expected to succeed next week as backlash grows amid AI boom

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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

"But won't my protest against data centers block the AI that cures cancer?" Don't worry; the chance is slim. That has to do with the difference between the generative AI driving the building boom and the specialized systems that actually detect cancer. dorotheabaur.ch/en/texts-and...

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Data Centers: Hungry. Thirsty. And not welcome.

Data centres consume water, electricity and land – yet give almost nothing back to local communities. Why citizens are right to protest.

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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

While the parents protest against the construction of data centres at local council meetings, their children are doing their homework using AI, only to end up unemployed later on. They learn this from the speaker at their graduation ceremony. My rant on data centers. dorotheabaur.ch/en/texts-and...

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Data Centers: Hungry. Thirsty. And not welcome.

Data centres consume water, electricity and land – yet give almost nothing back to local communities. Why citizens are right to protest.

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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Während die Eltern an Gemeindeversammlungen gegen den Bau von Datenzentren protestieren, schreiben die Kinder an der Uni ihre Seminararbeiten mit KI, nur um später arbeitslos zu sein. Das erfahren sie vom Redner an ihrer Abschlussfeier. Kein Wunder buhen sie ihn aus. dorotheabaur.ch/texte-und-me...

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Datenzentren: Hungrig. Durstig. Nicht willkommen.

Datenzentren beanspruchen Wasser, Strom und Land – und geben den Gemeinden fast nichts zurück. Warum Anwohner zu Recht protestieren.

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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

100%! it's fueling division even more than the (tyranny of) merit.

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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

For those who are not on LinkedIn: AI might mean the end of meritocracy, but the alternative it opens up and the price we are paying overshadows everything. The end of the tyranny of merit would mean that everyone has a fair chance. AI suggests that (almost) no one has a chance

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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Super Artikel! Habe ihn auch gerade gelesen. Und wenn sie China Fabriken in den USA bauen lassen, werden dort Roboter arbeiten statt Menschen…

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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

"AI does not necessitate imperial conquest, nor could broad-based benefit from the technology ever emerge from such a foundation". Before the pivot to extremely resource-intensive AI models, small, specialized systems solved hard problems. @karenhao.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/technology/c...

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The Elon Musk v Sam Altman battle is a distraction | Karen Hao

Fixating on questions of whether Altman is untrustworthy, or whether Musk is even less so distracts from a far deeper problem with AI

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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

"Many of the big companies making the models are also the ones that are selling you the compute. It makes sense for them to sell you the largest model, because then you need the most compute." Great interview with @sashamtl.bsky.social on AI & sustainability www.wired.com/story/what-i...

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What It Will Take to Make AI Sustainable

Researcher Sasha Luccioni argues we need better emissions data and a better sense of how people are using AI in the first place.

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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

"The child brain’s tendency toward delightful non sequitur and unpredictable meanderings is not aligned with an L.L.M.’s orientation toward speed and sleekness and summary, toward frictionless, rational outcomes." Great read! www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...

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What Will It Take to Get A.I. Out of Schools?

“I find myself speaking with my kids about A.I. in the same terms that we might discuss a creepy neighbor who lives down the block,” Jessica Winter writes. Read her report on the push for A.I. in educ...

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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

it's really frustrating. The burden of proof is ridiculous.

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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I've published some thoughts on LinkedIn: Anyone who writes with fluency or precision is suspected of using AI. We're engaging in a witch hunt where those accused bear the burden of proof, and the tools used to “convict” are as unreliable as any other polygraph. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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#genai #criticalthinking #digitalliteracy | Dr. Dorothea Baur | 94 comments

A couple of weeks ago a renowned publisher just pulled a horror novel because an algorithm flagged it as 78% likely AI-generated. The author denies having used AI herself but acknowledges that someone...

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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Für diejenigen, die mir auf LinkedIn folgen - ein kleiner "Rant" über Nihilismus im Journalismus, am Beispiel von KI-übersetzten Economist-Artikeln auf 20 min, die den Krieg gegen Iran als Suche nach Heu präsentieren www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

screenshot 20 Min. Fehlerhafte Passagen hervorgehoben

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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

aw, thank you! I don't come here very often. But great to see that you enjoyed it!

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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Landscapes are being littered with noisy data centres running on dirty energy, where no one works, to power the technology whose inventors either boast about putting millions of people out of work or threaten to wipe out humankind. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

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Inside the Dirty, Dystopian World of AI Data Centers

The race to power AI is already remaking the physical world.

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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

There's a "curious affinity between... nihilism and AI enthusiasm: If truth is irrelevant anyway, then LLMs – which essentially produce plausible statements without reference to truth (critics call it bullshit) – are not a threat but confirmation" dorotheabaur.ch/en/texts-and...

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Hallucinated References: Five Excuses for Academic Misconduct

When I proposed rejecting papers with hallucinated references, the support was overwhelming. But the critical voices revealed five argument patterns: from AI hype through TINA rhetoric to nihilism.

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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Excellent piece on what it means when we let agents take over: "the beginning of a world in which people are less in the loop and more on call, less empowered by the technology and more enslaved by its tempo" Highly recommended read! www.noemamag.com/ai-agents-ar...

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AI Agents Are Recruiting Humans To Observe The Offline World | NOEMA

Agents need us — as sensors, as verifiers, as bearers of liability — in ways we have barely begun to account for.

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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

"Ich erhielt ein Angebot, meine Forschungen in einem militärischen Kontext fortzusetzen. Das kam aber aus ethischen Erwägungen für mich nicht infrage" - na dann lieber Geld von Epstein nehmen... www.zeit.de/wissen/2026-...

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Joscha Bach: "Ich hatte das Gefühl, Epstein hat ein dunkles Herz"

Joscha Bach ist aktuell der bekannteste deutsche Forscher in den Epstein-Files. Nun spricht er erstmals ausführlich: Warum er Epsteins Geld annahm und wie er ihn erlebte.

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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Klingt super spannend! Danke für den Hinweis.

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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Genau, das ist die korrekte Übersetzung. Depressionszeit ist sowas von dekontextualisiert... Das Ganze liest sich furchtbar!

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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Unlikely Allies: 20min geht eine Kooperation ein mit The Economist und serviert seiner Audience 2 Mal wöchentlich Economist-Artikel. Spannend, dachte ich. Bis ich merkte: Maximaler KI-Slop! Maschinell übersetzte seelenlose Pampe. Unlesbar. Links im nächsten Post ->

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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

An LLM is trained on "right answers", i.e. the next word in the text that's been censored. In real use, that target vanishes: there's no correct next token when a person says, “hello” to the model. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social & @colin-fraser.net buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/how-to-out...

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How to outwit generative AI

My conversation with data scientist Colin Fraser

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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Eine junge Frau hat mir erzählt, dass sie am Wochenende an einer KI-Konferenz war, wo ein Speaker erzählte „KI wird uns alle umbringen“. Seither kann sie nicht mehr schlafen. WTF stimmt nicht mit solchen Typen?

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a man says " what 's wrong with you " in front of a dark background

ALT: a man says " what 's wrong with you " in front of a dark background

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