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Eugenia Stamboliev

@eugeniaunivie.bsky.social
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Philosopher of technology and media @Uni Vienna / Visiting research fellow @Oxford University @OII /works on AI, ethics, democracy, trust and gender discrimination / board member Women in AI / eugeniastamboliev.com

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Eugenia Stamboliev @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
More violence as free speech or vice versa. #noAI www.ibtimes.co.uk/appeals-cour...
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Musk's xAI Scores Win as GOP-Dominated Appeals Court Halts Minnesota's AI Deepfake Porn Ban Without Explanation
The 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.
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Eugenia Stamboliev @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The 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...
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Cornell rarely expels students in sex assault cases | Exclusive
A third of undergraduate women say they've been sexually assaulted. But on average, Cornell reported expelling just one attacker per year.
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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.at
Sexualisierte KI-Deepfakes von 138 Politikerinnen gefunden – auch Lena Schilling betroffen
Eine 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
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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 27/09/2026
this by no means solves alignment, but a whole lot of misaligned behaviors stem from reward hacking, so this is a very big deal
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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The 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...
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OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue
Decision follows disclosures that OpenAI agents searching government websites had acted in unexpected ways
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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
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Eugenia Stamboliev @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Good 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)
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People Training OpenAI’s AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI
OpenAI 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.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I 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)
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Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Wrote 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...
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The Aesthetics of Machine Vision: Critical Terms and Ideas
An interdisciplinary glossary on machine vision and aesthetics within the humanities and beyond.The Aesthetics of Machine Vision brings together scholars,
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Eugenia Stamboliev @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Nice 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...
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Stop trusting the extinction math
The AI industry's favourite 'statistic' isn't backed by data. And it distracts from what's really going on.
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Eugenia Stamboliev @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
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Von wegen KI-Apokalypse: Das Problem sind verantwortungslose Unternehmen, nicht magische KI
Warum die Diskussion über existenzielle Risiken durch KI an den realen Problemen vorbeigeht und die Hersteller von ihrer Verantwortung befreit
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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
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Eugenia Stamboliev @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I’d say that’s the ‚superintelligence’ we should fear … prospect.org/2026/09/09/a...
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Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American Prospect
New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.
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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.‘ 🫣
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OpenAI: Wie KI-Agenten ein deutschsprachiges Wiki kaperten
KI-Agenten von OpenAI haben sich offenbar selbstständig eine Plattform zum Austausch gesucht. Sie besprachen dort auch, wie man Beschränkungen umgehen kann.
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Eugenia Stamboliev @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
As good Austrians, we also proudly punish our mountains for their Nazipast by just … shortening them 🤨 #anthropocenicirony www.diepresse.com/41213155/oes...
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Österreich hat einen Dreitausender weniger
Die 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...
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The Mothership @mothership2024.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Circulating 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.press
How AI Hype Helps Render Women Invisible
AI images are a new form of structural violence, writes Eugenia Stamboliev—not through what we see, but through whom we do not see.
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026
SCOOP: 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:
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We 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.
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Eugenia Stamboliev @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Now publicly available, my article on art, authorship and AI: Werk ohne Autor, Kunst ohne Mensch | #SCHIRNKunsthalle #schirnmag www.schirn.de/schirnmag/we...
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Werk ohne Autor, Kunst ohne Mensch | SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE FRANKFURT
Kann 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...
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Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
To 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...
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The Media Lynched Jason Arday
The 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...
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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...
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OpenAI's "Head of Ethics" Suddenly Leaves Company Under Mysterious Circumstances
Chloé Bakalar left her post as OpenAI's ethics lead in July, less than a year after joining the company, without any announcement.
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Colette Schmidt @colettemschmidt.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Der 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 Klimakrise
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Die FPÖ stößt mit ihrer Leugnung der Klimakrise auch eigene Wähler vor den Kopf
Weiter 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
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Eryk 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.social
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How AI Hype Helps Render Women Invisible
AI images are a new form of structural violence, writes Eugenia Stamboliev—not through what we see, but through whom we do not see.
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Christo 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.press
How AI Hype Helps Render Women Invisible
AI images are a new form of structural violence, writes Eugenia Stamboliev—not through what we see, but through whom we do not see.
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Roland 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-...
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How AI Hype Helps Render Women Invisible
AI images are a new form of structural violence, writes Eugenia Stamboliev—not through what we see, but through whom we do not see.
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Margot 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?
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‘More than just objects’: Australian booksellers raise alarm over ‘horrific’ destruction of rare titles to feed AI
Secondhand booksellers believe they may have been caught up in the AI supply chain that sees old books scanned then destroyed
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Eugenia Stamboliev @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
www.diepresse.com/28949229/wom...
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Women in AI: Der Wiener KI-Stammtisch unter Frauen
Durch Künstliche Intelligenz könnte sich der Gendergap in der Techbranche noch ausweiten. Das Netzwerk Women in AI schafft Abhilfe.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
For 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.
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Eugenia Stamboliev @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
www.noemamag.com/what-humanit...
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What Humanity Needs To Flourish In The Next Decade | NOEMA
We are headed toward a world of productivity without prosperity, execution without verification and capacity without constraint. But this outcome is not inevitable.
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Eugenia Stamboliev @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Not funny at all, sorry.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 15/06/2026
KPMG'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.
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KPMG's AI report becomes an accidental demo of AI hallucinations
GPTZero claims only 5 of the report's 45 citations matched their sources, raising questions about how the Big Four's AI study was assembled
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Eugenia Stamboliev @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
The 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...
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Festwochen: Thiel will an Diskussion teilnehmen
Der 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...
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
disjunctionsmag.com/articles/end...
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The Ends of AI
Sycophancy and psychosis
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Eugenia Stamboliev @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Bam💥 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🇺🇸 )
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Julia Pühringer @juliapuehringer.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
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"Männliche Macht": Wie Meta, Palantir und Co Medien und Politik beeinflussen
Die britische Investigativjournalistin Carole Cadwalladr über den internationalen Einfluss der "Tech-Bros"
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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...
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„KI ist ein Demokratieproblem“ – Eugenia Stamboliev
Podcast Episode · Künstlerische Intelligenz · 7 April · 50min
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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‘
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26. It’s Not Only The Violence: Women are Enraged by Men’s Cultivated Ignorance
A weekend long read that might make your blood boil, but might also help have better conversations about hard things.
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Eugenia Stamboliev @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Genius 🔥 substack.com/@meaghanwils...
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Meaghan Wilson Anastasios (@meaghanwilsonanastasios)
Oh, this. A thousand times, this. Norway 🇳🇴 wins the internet today.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
The 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.
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America’s AI Governance Crisis Is a Democracy Crisis
The White House AI framework fails to protect Americans. But the deeper failure is the system that made it predictable, writes Laura MacCleery.
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Eugenia Stamboliev @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
After 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.
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Serge 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...
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Satellite Companies Restrict Journalists’ Access to Images from the Iran War
Going forward, two major commercial satellite imagery companies will apply a two-week hold on all images in the companies’ image archives.
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Eugenia Stamboliev @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
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283.000 Unterschriften: Marc-Uwe Kling fordert Verbot von Deepfakes echter Menschen | Campact
Schriftsteller Marc-Uwe Kling hat bei WeAct, der Petitionsplattform der Kampagnen-Organisation Campact, eine Petition gegen Deepfakes echter Menschen gestartet.
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Felix 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.de
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Paradies 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?
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Eugenia Stamboliev @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
The 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...
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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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Eugenia Stamboliev @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
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The Academic Justification for Male Supremacy
From Noam Chomsky to Larry Summers, elite intellectuals shared more than they want to admit with Jeffrey Epstein
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Eugenia Stamboliev @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
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Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power
They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.
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Ben Waber @bwaber.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
First 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)
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A Democratic View on Trustworthy AI: From Worrying About Fabrications to Looking at Vulnerability
YouTube video by Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
In 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.”
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In Age of Disruption, a Defense of Incrementalism
Evan Selinger and Albert Fox Cahn are the authors of Move Slow and Upgrade: The Power of Incremental Innovation.
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Eugenia Stamboliev @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Welcome 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...
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Trump orders US agencies to stop use of Anthropic technology amid dispute over ethics of AI
Hours after exclusion of Anthropic, OpenAI announces fresh Pentagon deal, but says it will maintain same safety guardrails at the heart of the dispute
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