Carissa, “Prophecy” is fascinating —intelligent, witty, insightful, and bold enough to avoid falling into resigned sighing. I love the invigorating philosophy that flows from the book. Epicurus would have enthusiastically enjoyed it.

This #bookrecommendation for #PROPHECY is very close to my heart, because of the beauty of the words, because I hope the book will make you laugh, and because I absolutely loved @irenevalmore.bsky.social book, Papyrus, and when I learned that she knew of my work I could hardly believe it. 🙏🙏🙏

Very nice review from MIT Technology Review "One might start by reminding the rationalists that any prediction [about human beings], computational or otherwise, is really just a wish—but one with a powerful tendency to self-fulfill... www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/18/1...

Excelente entrevista a @carissaveliz.bsky.social sobre privacidad digital que hay que recordar. «La acusación de que si te preocupan las prácticas éticas es que estás en contra de la tecnología es pura retórica [...] Hay que diseñar mejor la tecnología para que respete los derechos humanos».

Another nice review of "The Means of Prediction" in @technologyreview.com / @techreview: www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/18/1... (Also discussing lovely new books by @beenwrekt.bsky.social / @beenwrekt and @carissaveliz.bsky.social / @CarissaVeliz )

Excited to start getting reviews about #PROPHECY! This one is a *starred* review from Publishers Weekly. "Lively and erudite, this impresses." The entire review is here: www.publishersweekly.com/9780385550970 #bookrecommendation UK: amzn.eu/d/01SBeTh2 US: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/759692...

“As it ponders perhaps its greatest privacy intrusion yet, Meta is betting on people looking the other way. No matter the touted benefits of facial recognition in Meta’s smart glasses, the trade-off isn’t worth it.”

The mass market paperback “was one of the most brilliant technologies in the history of the world” #books #authors www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b...

#Anthropic stole my #book

Thank you to the amazing Karen Hao (@karenhao.bsky.social) for her words. In the digital age, reading a paper book is a quiet act of defiance. Support #books and #authors by pre-ordering #PROPHECY: US: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/759692... UK: amzn.eu/d/09DFxL4Q

Episode 1 is OUT!! 🥳 🙌 This week on The Interface, we discuss: * That insane Superbowl ad for Ring * The US TikTok takeover * And the beef that launched ChatGPT Listen wherever you get your podcasts: app.magellan.ai/listen_links...

“Prophecy” by @carissaveliz.bsky.social is absolutely brilliant. It will transform your understanding of Big Tech, and especially of AI. It is an absolute must read. It will be released April 21. Please pre-order it from @Bookshop.org! bookshop.org/p/books/prop...

Thrilled to share what the great historian @timothysnyder.bsky.social has to say about #PROPHECY! To pre-order the #book: US: a.co/d/00PLNpOt UK: amzn.eu/d/01WcZ4MQ #BookRecommendation

"I want to praise difficulty, not for its own sake, but because so much of what we want, we get through endeavours that are difficult. The difficulty is why doing something is rewarding" by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Chuffed and grateful to share what the amazing Chris Wylie, the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower, has to say about #PROPHECY: “Véliz exposes the con of Silicon Valley’s coup to define the future. 1/ www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/759692...

"You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right." "I had given up my seat before, but this day, I was especially tired. Tired from my work as a seamstress, and tired from the ache in my heart." - Rosa Parks, born today in 1913 (as Hertford's College Chaplain reminded us.

So honoured and grateful to have been photographed by the great Daniel Mordzinski, photographer of writers, at the Hay Festival in Cartagena, and to be in the company of so many incredible people I deeply admire. Thank you @hayfestivalesp.bsky.social, y gracias a Daniel. elpais.com/america-colo...

@carissaveliz.bsky.social is profiled in this month's @bylinetimes.bsky.social . She is an Associate Professor in Philosophy at the Institute of Ethics in AI (Oxford Uni). Who knew such a post is necessary! Excellent article on her book Privacy is Power. Don't give our data away.

I am super grateful and happy to share with you what the incredible @mariaressa.bsky.social has to say about #PROPHECY: “Oxford philosopher Carissa Veliz traces the invisible forces that are insidiously manipulating us, stealing our data—and our agency. 1/

"Philosophy is the most productive force ever discovered by human beings..." A rallying cry for philosophy.

"If an agent has more access than it should, even by accident, it can surface information that changes how work is interpreted and shifts decisions away from the people meant to make them." #AIEthics www.fastcompany.com/91472817/the...

"The more automated the world becomes, the more people crave connection they can trust. This is true in every industry. People want honesty. They want perspective grounded in lived experience. #Trust has become one of the rarest forms of capital." #AIEthics www.rollingstone.com/culture-coun...

3/ Share IRL as much as online. @carissaveliz.bsky.social reminds us to cherish the analogue aspects of our lives to “protect the spaces where we are unobserved, unpredictable, and chaotically human”.

Un texto tan importante que me parece un manifiesto para la ciudadanía del siglo XXI.

Very happy to share my latest writing. "We are analogue creatures. Virtual water will not quench your thirst, digital food will not satisfy your appetite, and AI companions are no companions at all." Let's cherish the analogue, before we damage or lose it. #AIEthics www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-01...

“Protect the spaces where we are unobserved, unpredictable, and chaotically human.” Can we rethink our relationship with technology? Carissa (@carissaveliz.bsky.social) will make you want to try.

#Books pay off in pleasure and focus."There is value in resisting pure optimization, aggregation, and specialization. Not only for the sake of the humanity of the written word but also because it can be quite lonely at the bottom of a rabbit hole" #AIEthics #authors www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...

“If the system has access to all of your contacts and your emails and your calendar and you’re calling me and you have my contact, they're accessing my data too, and I don't want them to.” #privacy #AIEthics. Thanks for the quote, @mattburgess1.bsky.social . www.wired.com/story/expire...

Not only a TED Talk recommended by Roger McNamee @moonalice.com, but selected as one of the 25 essential TEDx talks of 2025. Out of 24,000. bsky.app/profile/cari...

2/ One watch @carissaveliz.bsky.social’s TED Talk on the power of analogue is a recommendation from our advisor and all-around mensch Roger McNamee @moonalice.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvJe...

What to read, watch and listen to this week 🧵 PS this was first published in our newsletter: citizensreunited.substack.com/p/new-year-n...

“Carissa Véliz…says most of the time consumers have no real way to check if AI or tech companies are handling their data in the ways they claim to. ‘These companies are very promiscuous with data. They have shown to not be very respectful of privacy.’” @carissaveliz.bsky.social

@carissaveliz.bsky.social: La tecnologia NO ES NEUTRAL. Tota tecnologia obra un ventall de possibilitats (affordances). La tecnologia de vigilancia CONVIDA al control i a l'erosió de la democràcia i l'agència. Digitalitzar dades personals és inherentment perillós. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSPR...

Many thanks, @anilseth.bsky.social! 🙏🙏🙏 #book #bookrecommendation #AIethics #forecasting

Honoured that my TEDxPorto talk on #privacy was selected as one of the 25 essential TEDx talks of 2025, among more than 24.000 published this year. 😃 🙏🙏🙏 #AIEthics Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?lis... And here's the talk on How Privacy Can Save Your Life: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSPR...

A @carissaveliz.bsky.social foi escolhida pelo El Pais como uma das dez pessoas mais influentes do mundo no que se trata de tecnologia. Acompanho o trabalho dela há bastante tempo e acho mais do que justo; lá em casa, tem duas pessoas que ouvem com atenção tudo o que ela diz.

Feeling extremely honoured and grateful to be selected by @elpais.com as one of the 10 most influential thinkers in the world on tech, along with giants like @meredithmeredith.bsky.social and @dacemoglumit.bsky.social. Thanks so much for the shout-out. 🙏🙏🙏 #AIEthics elpais.com/ideas/2025-1...

"Why is it worth us being together? Because there's magic in physical presence. Because we are analog creatures. And there's something irreplaceable happening between us right now." Brilliant and, as ever, thought-provoking talk from @carissaveliz.bsky.social : www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvJe...

"We are analogue creatures" #philsky

I hope you everyone will watch this TEDx talk by @carissaveliz.bsky.social. She makes a point that most of us have not considered in years, if not decades. So important. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvJe...

Great talk by Carissa Veliz (see below):

Delighted to share this TEDxGeneva talk! The more I study the digital, the more I'm in awe of the richness and primacy of the analogue world. Don't forget that life is analogue, and all things digital depend on and are but a ghost of the analogue. #AIEthics www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvJe...

Three 2025 must reads deftly avoided Empire of AI - @karenhao.bsky.social This is for Everyone - @timbl.bsky.social Prophecy - @carissaveliz.bsky.social But grateful for the Bill Bryson ASHoNE 2.0 tip. Might surpass my top recommendation ever. Bryson's ASHoNE 1.0 www.penguin.co.uk/books/463567...

This is how you make a writer’s day 😃🙏🙏🙏 Thanks so much, @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social. Praise from Caesar is praise indeed 🙏🙏🙏 #books #AIethics

"There is significant overlap between the gig work community and the unhoused community." “The city’s homeless problem is becoming a PR problem,” a CBS anchor said in 2019. “Arriving visitors are greeted by (...) an 11-mile stretch of human misery" #AIEthics lithub.com/on-the-death...

Until tech gives more agency to citizens, smart cities are a dumb idea for democracy. "While cities may disclose how they collect data, they rarely offer ways to opt out." "Residents want agency" #privacy #AIEthics spectrum.ieee.org/smart-city-p...

On bonding over #books and reading with friends. #authors www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/m...

Here's to good writing, which makes life more liveable. Many found in Stevenson’s work, particularly his essays, “hope to live and courage to die.” That's a life well lived. #authors lithub.com/robert-louis...

“These cases are damaging the reputation of the bar,” said Stephen Gillers, an ethics professor at New York University School of Law. “Lawyers everywhere should be ashamed of what members of their profession are doing.” #AIEthics www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/b...

"We use language to think, but that does not make language the same as thought." #AIEthics www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...