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...

We seem to be getting stupider when we could really use our wits. The antidote? Reading more. Also a good antidote against the evils of social media, from distraction to misinformation. And did I mention the pleasure of it? Don't miss out on the pleasure... #books www.economist.com/culture/2025...

"Are you suffering from the Surveillance Delusion?", asks Nigel Warburton. #privacy #AIEthics

How #privacy can save your life | @carissaveliz.bsky.social | TEDxPorto

Drumrolls, please! I’m thrilled to share the cover for my forthcoming #book from @doubledaybooks.bsky.social (Penguin Random House), #PROPHECY. This is the best book I’ve written: the boldest, the most innovative, the most personal. I have poured my soul into it like never before. 1/

My *prediction* for the next must-read best seller. -- predicted prior to this new information from ‪Carissa Véliz‬ -- The other two predictions way in advance of launch this year were books by Karen Hao and Tim Berners-Lee.

It's great to see #PROPHECY gathering friends. Thank you so much for everyone who has pre-ordered. It matters. It gets noticed. It's part of being in the conversation. THANK YOU! #Book www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/759692...

“This is a #book that will make you see the world quite differently—while also eliciting gasps of recognition. Passionate, erudite and punchy, #Prophecy will linger long in the memory.” —Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com, author of The Data Detective

Reviews: "A masterpiece. (...) Delightfully written, refreshingly original, and masterfully argued for, Prophecy lifts the veil on our forecasting practices. Prophecy is the most important book you will read for years.” Roger McNamee @moonalice.com , NYT bestselling author of Zucked

Drumrolls, please! I’m thrilled to share the cover for my forthcoming #book from @doubledaybooks.bsky.social (Penguin Random House), #PROPHECY. This is the best book I’ve written: the boldest, the most innovative, the most personal. I have poured my soul into it like never before. 1/

A #book has been brewing. It’s been taking shape among the spires of Oxford, the coffee shops of Madrid, and the libraries of Paris. It is the best, boldest, most honest, and most personal book I’ve written thus far. And I can’t wait to tell you more about it. Stay tuned. More to come next week.

"Ethical due diligence should become as routine as financial due diligence. Before asking how large a technology might become, we should ask what kind of behaviour it incentivises, what dependencies it creates, and who it leaves behind." #AIEthics time.com/7332888/we-n...

The most incredible library in the world, @bodleian.ox.ac.uk opened to OTD 1602, through the energy, money & commitment of Sir Thomas Bodley. It began with 5k books, & now more than 22m, with 2m+reader visits a year, & multi-million online users across the globe. Privilged to be its 25th librarian!

cyberinsider.com/precise-loca... This #databrooker business must be stopped. FYI @carissaveliz.bsky.social

"In any given week, 0.15 percent of users “indicate potentially heightened levels of emotional attachment to ChatGPT” More than 800 million people use ChatGPT every week. That’s 1.2 million people developing a potentially unhealthy bond to a chatbot" #AIEthics www.platformer.news/openai-menta...

"The ubiquity of #surveillance in the age of encryption is a policy choice. The reason [most] companies don’t encrypt our data so that they can’t use it against us is because they don’t have to. Congress hasn’t updated American consumer #privacy law since 1988" doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...

A fascinating and, as ever, thought - provoking conversation with @carissaveliz.bsky.social by @kateoneill.bsky.social Give it a listen - it's absolutely worth it and will only take 30 minutes of your time: www.thetechhumanist.com/2025/10/30/d...

New episode: Dr. @carissaveliz.bsky.social on why privacy is power — and how to build AI that protects dignity and democracy. Listen: www.thetechhumanist.com/2025/10/25/d... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d... open.spotify.com/show/1NSOUmN... #TheTechHumanistShow #PrivacyIsPower #AIEthics

Roomba should have been a warning.

Funny not funny #AIEthics

«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». @carissaveliz.bsky.social sobre el abuso de poder en la era de las tecnologías digitales.

"What is it to track something if it's not to surveil it?" Leverhulme Fellow @carissaveliz.bsky.social highlights that to digitise is to surveil and how privacy can save your life. 🎬 media.leverhulme.ac.uk/video/how-pr...

"Privacy is important because it protects us from possible abuses of power. That makes it essential for both personal freedom and democracy. Without privacy, fundamental pillars of democracy like investigative journalism, attorney-client privilege, and fair elections fail" bsky.app/profile/cari...