Alimentar el miedo hacia la IA ya forma parte del extraño márketing tecnológico contemporáneo

If the European Commission truly wants tech sovereignty, it should start by freeing itself from Big Tech’s epistemic capture, write Cecilia Rikap and Vali Stan.

Large investment funds promote apocalyptic narratives to legitimise their power and foster an increasingly authoritarian technological model.

L’ésser humà té certa dificultat per habitar la incertesa. D’aquí la nostra trajectòria intentant objectivar la realitat i convertir-la en quelcom mesurable i predictible. La IA és fruit d’aquesta his...

It is not simple stubbornness that LLMs are not “intelligent,” much less a form of “general” intelligence, writes Eryk Salvaggio.

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El autor examina cómo funciona el hype en el ámbito del capital riesgo y el capital privado, y por qué se ha convertido en un instrumento político tan poderoso.

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The more of the world that is enrolled into the VC war-tech hype machine, the more we must ask where this leaves the possibility for peace, writes Elke Schwarz.

Andreu Belsunces Gonçalves examines how hype operates and explains why it has become such a powerful political instrument today.

A visual database of AGI hype discourse mapped into six key dimensions of uncertainty using qualitative research methodologies. Shown at the Mozilla Festival 2025.

Unprecedented funding leads 10 groups including OpenAI and Elon Musk’s xAI to gain almost $1tn in value in past year

Volume 18, Issue 5 of Journal of Cultural Economy

El hype exagera los posibles beneficios de una nueva tecnología mientras ofusca sus efectos negativos. Es una estrategia especulativa diseñada para atraer capital y atención mediática, y así materiali...

This paper coins and develops the notion of sociotechnical fiction: a type of fiction distinct from literary or cinematic forms, which operates within the technosciences to materialise non-existent, i...

Cryptocurrencies are sociotechnical objects encoding the visions and interpretative frameworks of the communities of practice that ideated and designed them. This paper explores and presents the no...

The practice of spirituality is key to facing the profound eco-social transition in which we are currently immersed.