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Ariel Guersenzvaig @interacciones.org · 05/09/2026

Is the button at the bottom the best tip?

Screenshot of a career features article in Nature Magazine

01 September 2026
Title: From Trojan horses to AI-proof exams: how professors are tackling students' Al use
Intro: Academics worldwide are rethinking their assessment approaches - from developing exams that artificial-intelligence tools can't pass to sneaking hidden AI prompts into tasks to catch cheating students.
By Katarina Zimmer
At the bottom button with the label “Find a new job”

Ariel Guersenzvaig @interacciones.org · 08/08/2026

maybe they are less insidious when they are isolated cases but I don’t think they are when those verbs are marshalled systematically and structurally embedded in the interaction style zenodo.org/records/1934...

Text: Who hasn't tried to verbally cajole a stalled car into starting or said that their laptop "decided" to update at the worst moment? These, however, are weak versions of anthropomorphism in the form of "as if" metaphorical reasoning used as a pragmatic predictive strategy. Most of us don't really believe that talking to our car will help start it.
However, Epley, Waytz, and Cacioppo (2007: 867) posit that even very weak versions of anthropomorphism
"can still have a powerful impact on behavior, with people behaving toward agents in ways that are consistent with these metaphors." What is more, even a small sensory cue can trigger anthropomorphism, "Adding a humanlike voice to a machine might make it seem more like a person" (Schroeder and Epley 2016: 1428). If even minimal cues trigger social responses, what can we expect from systems that simulate fluid, seemingly coherent, conversational exchanges with humans on purpose and in real time?
We believe anthropomorphism in genAl is more ethically problematic than when we say, for instance, that our printer is being "stubborn," because the contextual conditions to foster this tendency when using chatbots have become engineered, i.e. hardcoded, into the interactional style these systems are designed to follow.
Attributing human capacities to a machine is the result of a structural feature of generative Al systems,

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Ariel Guersenzvaig @interacciones.org · 15/07/2026

🙌 …and two of my daughters were born in Spain

Man wearing the Argentina football jersey

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Ariel Guersenzvaig @interacciones.org · 06/07/2026

FIFA has been for decades nothing but a corrupt clique that partnered with criminals and dictators to steal football from us. Only for power and money. But we are fans and love this precious sport so much that every four years we still put up with their crap. It's getting more difficult every time.

Havelange and Videla in a box at a stadium.

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Ariel Guersenzvaig @interacciones.org · 06/07/2026

¿No saben qué la FIFA, especialmente desde Havelange, es una cueva de corruptos amigos de dictadores y criminales?

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Ariel Guersenzvaig @interacciones.org · 04/07/2026

Part of a long history of arrogance. I remember seeing De Boer on live Dutch TV saying that “Turkey is a modest team” after losing to them in the mid-90s. Hiddink called them then “a mediocre opponent.” www.volkskrant.nl/sport/laat-c...:

Screenshot from search emgine. Text: V
de Volkskrant
https://www.volkskrant.nl
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Laat Cruijff Oranje naar Frankrijk
brengen
'Een simpele ploeg', noemde Ronald de Boer de Turken. En ook Hiddink vond het maar een 'matige' tegenstander. Gebrek aan respect en zelfoverschatti...

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Ariel Guersenzvaig @interacciones.org · 04/07/2026

Same with the Spanish channel I’m paying to watch the FIFA World Cup in Spain. They can’t even properly spell the country names… in Spanish!

Picture of a TV chart with flags and misspelled country names GRUPO A
MÉJICO
SURAFRICA
REPÚBLICA DE KOREA
CHEQUIA
FIFA WORLD CUP 2026

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Ariel Guersenzvaig @interacciones.org · 03/07/2026

I will wear my new tshirt when I read this.

Black tshirt with text “AGAINST MODERN FOOTBALL” with ball and laurel wreath around it.

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Ariel Guersenzvaig @interacciones.org · 17/06/2026

Muy bueno esto de Caparrós sobre el VAR, a propósito de los goles anulados en el Argentina-Argelia. elpais.com/deportes/mun...

El encuentro había empezado una hora antes como un desencuentro entre los hombres y las máquinas. A los siete minutos los hombres ya habían hecho dos goles y las máquinas habían dicho que no: el VAR había dicho que no por un hombro de más, un tobillo de menos. Es injusto: el offside debería serlo cuando la vista de un humano alcanza para verlo, cuando el delantero que lo comete puede verlo; la máquina debería aprender a mirar como humana, precaria, aproximada.

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Ariel Guersenzvaig @interacciones.org · 11/06/2026

Los que son malos son los TVE que no se saben los nombres de los países

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Ariel Guersenzvaig @interacciones.org · 09/06/2026

We don’t usually see each others headers. Here’s mine. Quote post with yours (if you feel like it)

Shabby wall with graffiti saying “it gets worse”.

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Ariel Guersenzvaig @interacciones.org · 05/06/2026

By praising the genocidal Dutch East India Company (VOC in Dutch) and “capitalism’s full potential,” never before has an AI booster made the neocolonialist, exploitative nature of the AI industry as explicitly clear as Milei does in his FT article. www.ft.com/content/f930...

Screenshot of the Financial Times includes illustration of an Argentinian flag and text: FINANCIAL TIMES
Opinion Artificial intelligence
Javier Milei: Argentina invites AI to free itself

On March 201602, the founding of the Dutch East India Company gave the world the limited liability company - and unleashed capitalism's full potential. Only when law placed a ceiling on risk did capital deploy with genuine force. The industrial revolution ignited some years later was made complete not by engineering, but by Dutch corporate law. The machine and the

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Ariel Guersenzvaig @interacciones.org · 04/06/2026

Se ha muerto la gran Marjane Satrapi, historietista iraní, autora de “Persépolis”, entre otras obras. Si tienen criaturas, yo les recomiendo “Ajdar”, un libro precioso que mis hijas y yo hemos leído cientos de veces. elpais.com/cultura/2026...

Cubierta del libro Ajdar, de Marjane Satrapi. Contiene un dibujo de un dragón sonriente enrollado sobre sí mismo.

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Ariel Guersenzvaig @interacciones.org · 30/05/2026

Watching the Champions League final but actually waiting for the penalty kicks 🫠

Screenshot of Google AI dialogue.
Prompt: how many days of the week have a football penalty in them?
Answer: Three days of the week contain the letters for "penalty" (p-e-n-a-l-t-y):
• Tusesday
• Wednesday
• Saturday
None of the names of the days of the week contain the exact sequence of letters to spell "penalty" as a standalone word. However, if you are looking for which days contain the individual letters p, e, n, a, I, t, and y within their names, the breakdown is as follows:
• Thursday, Tuesday, and Saturday contain the letter
• Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday
contain the letter a.
• Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday contain the letter d.

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Ariel Guersenzvaig @interacciones.org · 22/05/2026

ICYI "When Responsibility Enables Ethics Washing: Responsible Realism as a Critical Lens for Probing Institutional Recommendations for the Use of AI in Higher Education" zenodo.org/records/1934...

We reject the idea of technological determinism, but we are wary of corporate strategies promoting early lock-in because, as technologies become widespread, they gain momentum (Hughes 1994), and when this happens, technology reversal becomes more difficult, not because it is an autonomous force, but because infrastructure, companies and institutions, regulations, the media, professions, markets, and our very own social and individual habits have coalesced around it. Think of cars.
Institutionally endorsed adoption can build a momentum that later makes technologies hard to undo. This is not to say that reversals are impossible; they aren't, as shown, among other cases, by the phasing out of asbestos as insulation material in construction and ship building (see e.g., Council EU 2023; USEPA 2024).
Reversals can and do happen, but it is indisputable that it would have been easier and far less tragic if the warnings about the extremely harmful effects associated with asbestos, known since the end of the 19th century (Frank and Van Zandwijk 2023), had been taken into account and incorporated in regulation and professional best practices before its use and irreversible harms started to grow exponentially in the 1950s. We believe we find ourselves at a similar juncture now with Al in higher education.

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Ariel Guersenzvaig @interacciones.org · 15/03/2026

Melinda Cooper’s essay on the Epstein household and its political economy contains this on Marx and Varoufakis 🎯 www.equator.org/articles/eps...

This form of domestic service is tacitly ruled over by something akin to 'master and servant' laws - a form of employment that once granted masters virtual dominion over their private sphere of government and punished workers with criminal sanctions such as in-house arrest, imprisonment, or even corporal punishment. Given the origins of 'master and servant' laws in medieval England, it would be easy to identify this development as a return to feudalism - an increasingly popular reading of the present conjuncture, as exemplified by the recent work of Yanis Varoufakis.
The argument owes much to Marx, who implied that personal domestic service would become obsolete as feudal relations gave way to the free labour contract. But recall that, contrary to Marx's predictions, domestic service expanded in the late-nineteenth century, not in spite of but because of the growing concentration of industrial and financial wealth. Moreover,
'master and servant' relations endured well into the 20th century and have made a comeback in recent decades, if not in formal legal arrangements then at least de facto.

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Ariel Guersenzvaig @interacciones.org · 10/03/2026

El grupo donde comentamos mientras escribíamos 🥲

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Ariel Guersenzvaig @interacciones.org · 02/03/2026

And they cite Mollick, “the AI expert and bestselling author of Co-Intelligence,” not once, not twice, but thrice. The same guy who believes that “we have never built a generally applicable technology that can boost our intelligence”…

We have invented technologies, from axes to helicopters, that boost our physical capabilities; and others, like spreadsheets, that automate complex tasks; but we have never built a generally applicable technology that can boost our intelligence.

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Ariel Guersenzvaig @interacciones.org · 01/03/2026

I’m not sure I’m actually happy you have, because N&T has become my default mental model for approaching current reality…

Screenshot of Companion’s Einstein landing page with the text: Meet Einstein
Einstein is an Al with a computer. He logs into Canvas every day, watches lectures, reads essays, writes papers, participates in discussions, and submits your homework — automatically.

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Ariel Guersenzvaig @interacciones.org · 22/02/2026

Can adding boiling water to a bowl of instant Knorr Carbonara Pasta teach students to cook better?

Picture of a bowl of Instant Knorr Carbonara Pasta.

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Ariel Guersenzvaig @interacciones.org · 18/02/2026

…and before that, redefining technology to mean machinery developed by men.

Cover of “Making technology masculine” by Ruth Oldenziel.

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Ariel Guersenzvaig @interacciones.org · 18/02/2026

We wrote something along these lines with @javisamo.bsky.social in our AI&Society paper about “AI assistants” link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Conducting bibliographical research exceeds instrumental as it enables us to develop our own research ideas, thus increasing our capacity for critical thinking and creativity, which have intrinsic value. Good bibliographical research situates our work and positions us within an academic tradition, which can and does affect our identity and the values and beliefs we adopt as researchers and as individuals. Doing bibliographical research is part of the process of constructing a conceptual and theoretical scaffold for our own thinking about the topics we are researching. These scaffolds, in turn, are part of dialogical agreements and disputes over vocabularies, traditions, and methods with those that preceded us. A literature review is a very sophisticated way of deliberation.

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Ariel Guersenzvaig @interacciones.org · 15/02/2026

¿Qué es esta bazofia que le hace el juego a los fascistas? España apretada… País que se satura… Menciones a la población extranjera…. Cada día estoy más cerca de cancelar mi suscripción a @elpais.com

Captura del diario El País. La España apretada de los casi 50 millones de habitantes
AMANDA MARS / DANIELE GRASSO (GRÁFICOS) | Madrid
La concentración demográfica, el crecimiento económico y el turismo tiran de las costuras del país
'Un país que se satura', por Raymond
Torres
Aglomeraciones en la estación de metro de Plaza Cataluña, en
Barcelona. GIANLUCA BATTISTA
Foto de una multitud de personas entrando y saliendo de un tren.

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Ariel Guersenzvaig @interacciones.org · 11/02/2026

This is callousness disguised as concern for mental well-being. Absolutely sociopathic. hbr.org/2026/03/why-...

Screenshot from hbr: Managing People
Headline: Why Gen AI Feels So Threatening to Workers by Erik Hermann, Stefano Puntoni and Carey K. Morewedge
From the Magazine (March-April 2026)
Picture of a person holding a smartphone.

Screenshot of the Summary. As generative Al begins to handle more cognitive, creative, and interpersonal tasks, many employees perceive it to be a threat to their competence, autonomy, and sense of belonging at work. These psychological disruptions are producing widespread resistance, disengagement, and even covert opposition to Al initiatives. The challenge for leaders is not just technical integration but emotional and social adaptation. To meet that challenge, the authors propose the AWARE framework, which helps leaders address the psychological needs of employees: acknowledge employee concerns, watch for adaptive and maladaptive coping behaviors, align support systems with psychological needs, redesign workflows around human-Al synergies, and empower workers through transparency and inclusion. Leaders that apply this framework can ensure that gen Al tools enhance-rather than erode-workers' motivation and
commitment.

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Ariel Guersenzvaig @interacciones.org · 09/02/2026

Sobre esto de salir en los medios a vender tu empresa. Hace un par de semanas en la revista dominical 🤷🏽‍♂️

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Ariel Guersenzvaig @interacciones.org · 07/02/2026

There are caveats about AI making doctors more efficient, but the screenwriters of “The Pitt” get the rest quite right. (s02e05)

5 frames depicting medical staff in scrubs working at computers.

Captions per frame:
Frame 1: Sure, AI will make doctors more efficient
Frame 2: but hospitals will expect us to treat more patients
Frame 3: without any extra pay, of course
Frame 4: all the while eliminating staff positions
Frame 5: for attending and residents.

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Ariel Guersenzvaig @interacciones.org · 04/02/2026

This one is a new flavour: warning OTHERS to be careful about believing that machines are conscious while YOU YOURSELF fall for a very similar trap.

Yuval Noah Harari Historian;
A.I. isn't a tool entirely under human control — it is an agent that can make decisions and invent ideas by itself. While I don't think A.I. Will become conscious in the near future, it is highly likely these models will be able to simulate consciousness very effectively, causing a significant percentage of humanity to believe they are conscious.

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Ariel Guersenzvaig @interacciones.org · 03/02/2026

There are other books on the topic, but this one is gold.

Book cover: “Fighting traffic: the dawn of the motor age in the American city” by Peter D. Norton. The cover features a congested street in the late 1920s-1930s (I guess).

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Ariel Guersenzvaig @interacciones.org · 22/01/2026

Facilísimo, un fondo como regalo de reyes marca la diferencia de mayores porque tus padres tienen plata.

Captura artículo:

CincoDías
Mercados

De regalo de Reyes un fondo de inversión: por qué invertir desde pequeños marca la diferencia de mayores
La inversión a largo plazo favorece el efecto del interés compuesto que permite cada año generar ganancias sobre las ganancias

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Ariel Guersenzvaig @interacciones.org · 19/01/2026

Por otro lado lo de los medios en este tema, salvo excepciones, es una causa perdida

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Ariel Guersenzvaig @interacciones.org · 19/01/2026

Hold my beer onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

There are deeper questions about the use of technology that are raised less frequently than “Does it work?” We mean questions such as “What is it for?” and “Is it good?” We claim no originality in this respect; we reintroduce the questions that Joseph Weizenbaum (1972, 611) posed to fellow computer scientists more than 50 years ago in his essay on the side effects of computers.

The latter questions are not only less frequent but have primacy over those about effectiveness. It is our contention that we cannot meaningfully answer the question of whether something works without also addressing the latter questions about ends and moral goodness.

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Ariel Guersenzvaig @interacciones.org · 16/01/2026

“Design Philosophy after the Technology Turn” is now available open access (Eds. Secomandi & @ppverbeek.bsky.social). I contributed a chapter with Alger Sans, “Beyond Codes of Ethics: Regulative Ideals as Ethical Scaffolding for the Design Profession.” www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph-de...

Book cover of “Design Philosophy after the Technology Turn”. Edited by Secomandi and Verbeek. Illustrated by a depiction of an integrated circuit.

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Ariel Guersenzvaig @interacciones.org · 19/12/2025

A while ago I made this to illustrate a similar sentiment. I showed to my students and they thought it was accurate.

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Ariel Guersenzvaig @interacciones.org · 07/12/2025

@thewaroncars.bsky.social I’m halfway through the book and absolutely enjoying it and learning a lot from it. There’s a minor qualification: you should have used this quote from “The Thick of It” in the Bikelash section 🤪

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Ariel Guersenzvaig @interacciones.org · 06/12/2025

Once my dad was bantering me about how vague and long my abstracts were and showed me one of his.

Simple arithmetical criteria for irreducibility of polynomials with integer coefficients

Natalio H Guersenzvaig
Integers: Annual Volume 2013 2013, 1, 2014
A simultaneous generalization of well-known arithmetical criteria for irreducibility in Q [X] of polynomials in Z [X], including a classical result of G. Pólya and G. Szegö, will be achieved via a general framework for that family of irreducibility criteria. A further generalization, which for any f (X)∈ Z [X] provides an arithmetical function whose values are upper bounds for the number of irreducible factors of f (X) in Q [X], will also be established.

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Ariel Guersenzvaig @interacciones.org · 02/12/2025

As Weizembaum lambasted 50 years ago, “But, in fact, there are actors!” When I think of enablers of this travesty, EM often comes to mind. Note how he acts as a mediator and academic legitimizer of corporate pseudoscience by accepting it as if it was valid.

Tweet by Ethan Mollick: A focus on AGI (whatever it is) obscures the fact that we have increasing evidence from early results like GDPval that today's Al models are good enough to create major transformations over 5-10 years as companies figure out how to deploy them and integrate them into processes.
Images include a chart and a “paper” by OpenAI staff.

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Ariel Guersenzvaig @interacciones.org · 23/11/2025

Same as it ever was. Arendt, Crises of the Republic, p.8

The only limitation to what the public-relations man does comes when he discovers that the same people who perhaps can be "manipulated" to buy a certain kind of soap cannot be manipulated-though, of course, they can be forced by terror-to "buy" opinions and political views.
Therefore the psychological premise of human manipu-lability has become one of the chief wares that are sold on the market of common and learned opinion. But such doctrines do not change the way people form opinions or prevent them from acting according to their own lights.
The only method short of terror to have real influence on their conduct is still the old carrot-and-stick approach. It is not surprising that the recent generation of intellectuals, who grew up in the insane atmosphere of rampant advertising and were taught that half of politics is image-making" and the other half the art of making people believe in the imagery, should almost automatically fall back on the older adages of carrot and stick whenever the situation becomes too serious for "theory." To them, the greatest disappointment in the Vietnam adventure should have been the discovery that there are people with whom carrot-and-stick methods do not work either.

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Ariel Guersenzvaig @interacciones.org · 29/09/2025

Someone had to make it, I couldn’t resist.

Kombucha girl meme. Upper text: Bombing data centers to prevent the
"superintelligence". Lower text: Bombing data centers to prevent companies from sending us over the climate cliff.

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Ariel Guersenzvaig @interacciones.org · 27/09/2025

The same guy who wrote this in his bestseller 🫣

the ambiguity that the term implies. We have invented technologies, from axes to helicopters, that boost our physical capabilities; and others, like preadsheets, that automate complex tasks; but (start highlight) we have never built a generally applicable technology that can boost our intelligence. (End highlight) Now humans have access to a tool that can emute how

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