Eugenia Stamboliev @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026More violence as free speech or vice versa. #noAI www.ibtimes.co.uk/appeals-cour...ibtimes.co.ukMusk's xAI Scores Win as GOP-Dominated Appeals Court Halts Minnesota's AI Deepfake Porn Ban Without ExplanationThe Eighth Circuit has temporarily halted enforcement of Minnesota's AI 'nudification' ban while Elon Musk's xAI appeals a lower court ruling that rejected emergency relief. 031
Eugenia Stamboliev @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The reality for women ‘complaining’: Nothing happens. Except a lot to them. Their own career trajectories, paths and lives are properly ‘expelled’ from normality. eu.usatoday.com/story/news/n...eu.usatoday.comCornell rarely expels students in sex assault cases | ExclusiveA third of undergraduate women say they've been sexually assaulted. But on average, Cornell reported expelling just one attacker per year. 040
Eugenia Stamboliev @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026#AI’s #existential #risks, you ask? why not write about women being permanently violated through #deepfakes or just, AI images and those making und using those without any consequences. Sickening way to inherently threaten women in public or aiming for power/voice www.derstandard.at/story/300000...derstandard.atSexualisierte KI-Deepfakes von 138 Politikerinnen gefunden – auch Lena Schilling betroffenEine EU-weite Studie fand zahlreiche Webseiten mit KI-generierten Nacktfotos von Politikerinnen. Auch die Grünen-Abgeordnete Lena Schilling wurde zum Opfer. Sie fordert schnelleres Handeln 031
Reposted by Eugenia Stambolievmr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 27/09/2026this by no means solves alignment, but a whole lot of misaligned behaviors stem from reward hacking, so this is a very big deal 5464
Reposted by Eugenia StambolievDr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The problem isn't rogue #AI models, it's *negligent companies*. If a biomedical firm put their product in public water supply because they wanted to test it 'in the real world', they'd be treated as criminal at corporate & individual level. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comOpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogueDecision follows disclosures that OpenAI agents searching government websites had acted in unexpected ways 20821325
Eugenia Stamboliev @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026😐 not even surprised. I am maybe just cynical by now or just finally profit from having studied strategic communication and agenda setting (I could advise peeps like Coxon basically), but I often forget that especially philosophers a/ general publics are not used to decipher those deceptive games 020
Eugenia Stamboliev @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Good old irony ain’t dead. (But I admit I had to read the header 5 times to get who’s doing what 🧐…) www.404media.co/people-train... (Thanks to @carissaveliz.bsky.social for sharing this)404media.coPeople Training OpenAI’s AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AIOpenAI has thousands and thousands of contractors helping improve the company's AI models. Multiple contractors have been fired for using AI to train the AI. 072
Reposted by Eugenia StambolievIris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I am really not saying anything new. We KNOW all this from basic theoretical computer science -- but this knowledge, field, and expertise are being destroyed by LLMs and AI hype too (see also next post) 15012
Reposted by Eugenia StambolievTim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Wrote a chapter on machinic vision and labour in a new book edited by, among others, @routhier.bsky.social . It was fun writing about digital surveillance, online job hunting, invisibilized digital labour, etc. The book looks amazing and it’s all open access! direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...direct.mit.eduThe Aesthetics of Machine Vision: Critical Terms and IdeasAn interdisciplinary glossary on machine vision and aesthetics within the humanities and beyond.The Aesthetics of Machine Vision brings together scholars, 0149
Eugenia Stamboliev @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Nice to see someone’s finally addressing those infamous ‚10%‘ 🙏🏼 (aka that random likelihood AI is turning into Arnold Schwarzenegger or vice versa) www.not-ship.com/stop-trustin...not-ship.comStop trusting the extinction mathThe AI industry's favourite 'statistic' isn't backed by data. And it distracts from what's really going on. 021
Eugenia Stamboliev @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026www.derstandard.at/story/300000...derstandard.atVon wegen KI-Apokalypse: Das Problem sind verantwortungslose Unternehmen, nicht magische KIWarum die Diskussion über existenzielle Risiken durch KI an den realen Problemen vorbeigeht und die Hersteller von ihrer Verantwortung befreit 000
Eugenia Stamboliev @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026@christobuschek.net und ich haben uns mit den beiden tollen @colettemschmidt.bsky.social und @muzayen.bsky.social über KI Narrative, allgegenwärtige Gefahren und Ideologien unterhalten, aber entgegen von #doomsday scenarios. @derstandard.at 062
Eugenia Stamboliev @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I’d say that’s the ‚superintelligence’ we should fear … prospect.org/2026/09/09/a...prospect.orgAnthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American ProspectNew hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters. 021
Eugenia Stamboliev @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social · 05/09/2026‚Die Agenten konnten dort trotz fehlender Schreib-Erlaubnis über einen Umweg neue Beiträge auf die Wiki-Seiten posten. Damit, sagt von Arx, konnten sie nicht nur Informationen für sich selbst, sondern auch für andere Agenten speichern, damit diese sie in der Zukunft nutzen können.‘ 🫣zeit.deOpenAI: Wie KI-Agenten ein deutschsprachiges Wiki kapertenKI-Agenten von OpenAI haben sich offenbar selbstständig eine Plattform zum Austausch gesucht. Sie besprachen dort auch, wie man Beschränkungen umgehen kann. 021
Eugenia Stamboliev @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social · 29/08/2026As good Austrians, we also proudly punish our mountains for their Nazipast by just … shortening them 🤨 #anthropocenicirony www.diepresse.com/41213155/oes...diepresse.comÖsterreich hat einen Dreitausender wenigerDie Graterhebung wurde 1988 mit Steinen künstlich auf 3000 Meter erhöht und nach dem Kartografen und Glaziologen Wolfgang Pillewizer benannt. Aufgrund seiner NS-Vergangenheit wird der Berg nun... 000
Reposted by Eugenia StambolievThe Mothership @mothership2024.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Circulating this article is an act of resistance against epistemic violence. Reading it is a means to empowerment. #femisphere @techpolicypress.bsky.social @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/how-ai-hype-...techpolicy.pressHow AI Hype Helps Render Women InvisibleAI images are a new form of structural violence, writes Eugenia Stamboliev—not through what we see, but through whom we do not see. 131
Reposted by Eugenia Stamboliev404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:404media.coWe Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training FacilityWe placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. 15162263915
Eugenia Stamboliev @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Now publicly available, my article on art, authorship and AI: Werk ohne Autor, Kunst ohne Mensch | #SCHIRNKunsthalle #schirnmag www.schirn.de/schirnmag/we...schirn.deWerk ohne Autor, Kunst ohne Mensch | SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE FRANKFURTKann KI jetzt auch Kunst? Philosophin Eugenia Stamboliev seziert unterschiedliche Narrative rund um Kunst und generative KI. Es geht um nicht weniger als um die Schöpfung – um den Mythos des Autorenge... 273
Reposted by Eugenia StambolievIbram X. Kendi @ibramxk.bsky.social · 15/08/2026To be a prominent antiracist Black scholar is to know you are a target, almost totally surrounded by resentments. You know that at any point, the attacks can come like a lynch mob. My latest @TheEmancipator.org. theemancipator.org/2026/08/15/i...theemancipator.orgThe Media Lynched Jason ArdayThe death yesterday of Jason Arday, a 41-year-old Black scholar who resigned from the University of Cambridge after waves of attacks over the last few weeks, hits close to home. His death left me so d... 11470184
Eugenia Stamboliev @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social · 15/08/2026‚There currently is no replacement lined up, suggesting shifting priorities at the company. According to the FT‘s sources, Bakalar was the only remaining dedicated ethicist at the company.‘ 👻 futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comOpenAI's "Head of Ethics" Suddenly Leaves Company Under Mysterious CircumstancesChloé Bakalar left her post as OpenAI's ethics lead in July, less than a year after joining the company, without any announcement. 02514
Reposted by Eugenia StambolievColette Schmidt @colettemschmidt.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Der Job von Herbert Kickl ist es offenbar weiterhin, vor allem zu spalten. Neben der Realität austrocknender Flüsse und verdorrender Felder wirken seine Brandreden ohne Lösungsansätze wie eine schlechte Parodie von Charlie Chaplins "großem Diktator". Mein Kommentar zum FPÖ-Umgang mit der Klimakrisederstandard.atDie FPÖ stößt mit ihrer Leugnung der Klimakrise auch eigene Wähler vor den KopfWeiter so zu tun, als sei dies ein Sommer wie immer, wird zusehends absurder und gefährlicher. Reaktionen auf FPÖ-Seiten zeigen, wie weit die Partei von den Problemen der Menschen entfernt ist 1020363
Reposted by Eugenia StambolievEryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 07/08/2026“AI hype not only frames public perception of emerging technologies in simplified terms but also simplifies the reality we see: erasing the grainy, the fluid, the non-conforming. In this way, it contributes to the erasure of women online” - @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social in @techpolicypress.bsky.socialtechpolicy.pressHow AI Hype Helps Render Women InvisibleAI images are a new form of structural violence, writes Eugenia Stamboliev—not through what we see, but through whom we do not see. 23923
Reposted by Eugenia StambolievChristo Buschek @handle.invalid · 07/08/2026“Ultimately, AI favors its makers' instructions and not the voice or empowerment of its 'objects’.” Great essay by @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social, bringing together data, hype and Hannah Arendt, to describe “synthetic discrimination” as a property inherent to LLMs. www.techpolicy.press/how-ai-hype-...techpolicy.pressHow AI Hype Helps Render Women InvisibleAI images are a new form of structural violence, writes Eugenia Stamboliev—not through what we see, but through whom we do not see. 1169
Reposted by Eugenia StambolievRoland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 07/08/2026«As a form of structural invisibility, AI is violent, not just biased.» Important new essay by @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/how-ai-hype-...techpolicy.pressHow AI Hype Helps Render Women InvisibleAI images are a new form of structural violence, writes Eugenia Stamboliev—not through what we see, but through whom we do not see. 26528
Reposted by Eugenia StambolievMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 02/08/2026'rare books experts are increasingly worried that these artefacts may be under threat of destruction by generative AI companies seeking to feed their ravenous technology with new texts.' First they came for your monograph, then for rare books. Where next: wholesale destruction of archives?theguardian.com‘More than just objects’: Australian booksellers raise alarm over ‘horrific’ destruction of rare titles to feed AISecondhand booksellers believe they may have been caught up in the AI supply chain that sees old books scanned then destroyed 37851
Eugenia Stamboliev @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social · 27/07/2026www.diepresse.com/28949229/wom...diepresse.comWomen in AI: Der Wiener KI-Stammtisch unter FrauenDurch Künstliche Intelligenz könnte sich der Gendergap in der Techbranche noch ausweiten. Das Netzwerk Women in AI schafft Abhilfe. 030
Reposted by Eugenia StambolievMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/07/2026For many years, people didn’t randomly film others in public—not because we didn’t have the technology, but because the social contract said you didn’t do that. That’s why Meta is going full court press on their PR and celebrity endorsements. They remember how people ran google glass outta town. 423403912
Eugenia Stamboliev @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social · 24/07/2026www.noemamag.com/what-humanit...noemamag.comWhat Humanity Needs To Flourish In The Next Decade | NOEMAWe are headed toward a world of productivity without prosperity, execution without verification and capacity without constraint. But this outcome is not inevitable. 030
Reposted by Eugenia StambolievChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 15/06/2026KPMG's October 2025 report on the wonders of agentic AI has been accused of ... you guessed it. A forensic review of KPMG's "Total Experience: Redefining Excellence in the Age of Agentic AI," found that only five of its 45 citations correctly pointed to the cited source.theregister.comKPMG's AI report becomes an accidental demo of AI hallucinationsGPTZero claims only 5 of the report's 45 citations matched their sources, raising questions about how the Big Four's AI study was assembled 316449
Eugenia Stamboliev @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social · 27/05/2026The really interesting scandals that a 75year old cultural/ theatre festival should create, shouldn’t be the organiser‘s ego wanting to play discourse with a fascist #vienna #wienerfestwochen wien.orf.at/stories/3355...wien.orf.atFestwochen: Thiel will an Diskussion teilnehmenDer umstrittene Technologiemilliardär Peter Thiel hat laut Wiener Festwochen zugesagt, an einer Diskussion in Wien teilzunehmen. Jetzt aber soll öffentlich debattiert werden, ob die Diskussion mit Thi... 050
Reposted by Eugenia StambolievMél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 09/05/2026disjunctionsmag.com/articles/end...disjunctionsmag.comThe Ends of AISycophancy and psychosis 13714
Eugenia Stamboliev @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Bam💥 und ja, I hate to say it, aber es halt auch super, dass ein Journalist das Thema so on point - und nicht minder eloquent provokant - aufgreift …thanks @derlampenputzer.bsky.social (Ein kl Nachsatz: leider sind deepfakes von Anfang an frauenfeindliche Waffen, nun aber ganz klar u offen. Yay🇺🇸 ) 030
Reposted by Eugenia StambolievJulia Pühringer @juliapuehringer.bsky.social · 01/05/2026derstandard.at"Männliche Macht": Wie Meta, Palantir und Co Medien und Politik beeinflussenDie britische Investigativjournalistin Carole Cadwalladr über den internationalen Einfluss der "Tech-Bros" 27036
Eugenia Stamboliev @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social · 12/04/2026📻 Podcast episode about #AI enabling #genderviolence. huge thanks to #anna-sophialumpe for such a pleasant conversation despite the horrible and finally acknowledged topic … podcasts.apple.com/at/podcast/k...podcasts.apple.com„KI ist ein Demokratieproblem“ – Eugenia StambolievPodcast Episode · Künstlerische Intelligenz · 7 April · 50min 071
Eugenia Stamboliev @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social · 29/03/2026🔥👇🏻 ‚Cultivated ignorance is a psychological salve. For many men, acknowledging the reality of widespread male predation threatens their “protector” identities. It is easier to believe that a woman’s safety is a result of a man’s proximity rather than her own constant, invisible labor‘open.substack.com26. It’s Not Only The Violence: Women are Enraged by Men’s Cultivated IgnoranceA weekend long read that might make your blood boil, but might also help have better conversations about hard things. 02710
Eugenia Stamboliev @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Genius 🔥 substack.com/@meaghanwils...substack.comMeaghan Wilson Anastasios (@meaghanwilsonanastasios)Oh, this. A thousand times, this. Norway 🇳🇴 wins the internet today. 011
Reposted by Eugenia StambolievJustin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 24/03/2026The White House and Republicans in Congress announced new ambitions for national AI legislation. But the country’s failure to govern AI is the predictable outcome of a decades-long project to dismantle the democratic infrastructure that would make governance possible, writes Laura MacCleery.techpolicy.pressAmerica’s AI Governance Crisis Is a Democracy CrisisThe White House AI framework fails to protect Americans. But the deeper failure is the system that made it predictable, writes Laura MacCleery. 0249
Eugenia Stamboliev @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social · 23/03/2026After days of chauvinist horror surfacing, too many men platformed unnecessarily or too late, having A. ‚Palantir’ Karp brag about ‚his time‘ with Habermas (in politico), is THE very mockery and reversal of H’ian consens and that imaginary ‚public sphere‘. Couldn’t share link. 010
Reposted by Eugenia StambolievSerge Courrier @secou.bsky.social · 23/03/2026[ #IMINT ] Satellite Companies Restrict Journalists’ Access to Images from the Iran War (by @gijn.org): gijn.org/stories/sate...gijn.orgSatellite Companies Restrict Journalists’ Access to Images from the Iran WarGoing forward, two major commercial satellite imagery companies will apply a two-week hold on all images in the companies’ image archives. 14927
Eugenia Stamboliev @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social · 22/03/2026www.campact.de/presse/mitte...campact.de283.000 Unterschriften: Marc-Uwe Kling fordert Verbot von Deepfakes echter Menschen | CampactSchriftsteller Marc-Uwe Kling hat bei WeAct, der Petitionsplattform der Kampagnen-Organisation Campact, eine Petition gegen Deepfakes echter Menschen gestartet. 010
Reposted by Eugenia StambolievFelix Maschewski @fmaschewski.bsky.social · 21/03/2026"Kybernetik und Kritik" goes Leipziger Buchmesse bzw. Breitband (DLF Kultur). Sehr schönes Gespräch zwischen "Paradies und Post-Apokalypse" mit @annanosthoff.bsky.social @aiki-mira.bsky.social und @veronikakracher.bsky.social. www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/paradies-ode... @suhrkamp.dedeutschlandfunkkultur.deParadies oder Post-Apokalypse: Wie lässt sich die Digitalisierung überleben?Die egalitäre digitale Gesellschaft war einst eine Utopie, doch die digitale Welt ist geprägt von Spaltung, Hass und Machtmissbrauch. Wie wieder herauskommen? 03310
Eugenia Stamboliev @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social · 17/03/2026The data centers needed to train AI can demand as much electricity as 200,000 American homes, @matteo_wong reports. Their insatiable demand for energy has already begun to remake the physical world. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...theatlantic.comInside the Dirty, Dystopian World of AI Data CentersThe race to power AI is already remaking the physical world. 012
Eugenia Stamboliev @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social · 17/03/2026newlinesmag.com/argument/the...newlinesmag.comThe Academic Justification for Male SupremacyFrom Noam Chomsky to Larry Summers, elite intellectuals shared more than they want to admit with Jeffrey Epstein 185
Eugenia Stamboliev @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social · 13/03/2026newrepublic.com/post/207693/...newrepublic.comPalantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic PowerThey’re saying the quiet part out loud now. 010
Reposted by Eugenia StambolievBen Waber @bwaber.bsky.social · 28/02/2026First was a fantastic talk by @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social on interrogating the notion of "trustworthy AI" at @oii.ox.ac.uk. Stamboliev incisively picks apart this concept, proposing a move to "democratic trustworthiness." Highly recommend www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH4j... (2/10)youtube.comA Democratic View on Trustworthy AI: From Worrying About Fabrications to Looking at VulnerabilityYouTube video by Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford 231
Reposted by Eugenia StambolievJustin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 01/03/2026In their book, Move Slow and Upgrade: The Power of Incremental Innovation, Evan Selinger and Albert Fox Cahn argue society is over-fixated on disruptive innovation and needs to adopt an “upgrader’s mindset,” which should be applied whenever “disruptive changes would pose the greatest social risk.”techpolicy.pressIn Age of Disruption, a Defense of IncrementalismEvan Selinger and Albert Fox Cahn are the authors of Move Slow and Upgrade: The Power of Incremental Innovation. 610422
Eugenia Stamboliev @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Welcome to the world of bonkers ethics… where everything you like or don’t like, or understand or don’t understand, or simply can spell and use to fit your whatever argument, is #AIethics. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comTrump orders US agencies to stop use of Anthropic technology amid dispute over ethics of AIHours after exclusion of Anthropic, OpenAI announces fresh Pentagon deal, but says it will maintain same safety guardrails at the heart of the dispute 010