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...

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)

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.”

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...

Whose interests does AI actually "encapsulate"? Current debates on Trustworthy AI focus heavily on technical accuracy and safety. But is that enough for a democracy? Learn more and register for our upcoming event here: www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...

Ladies and gentlemen, bored humans, here a speech without content, praise without substance and a speaker as brainless robot screen interface. The future of mankind is a sad, eternal and empty reading of the same and generic ‚AI is amazing’ summary from a tiny screen youtube.com/shorts/kkADP...

The last days and weeks, media and people around me can’t stop praising this #clawbot #moltbot nightmare (ok mostly, Austrians), and one effect is, it shows well for whom ethics and privacy was noble talk, b/ forgotten when new profit margins move closer. www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/06/1...

This is turning very dadaistic but also too real www.wired.com/story/i-trie...

More (selfish) event tips 📯 me talking about/critiquing #trustworthyAI When? 25 Feb, 1:30-2:30 UK time Where? @oii.ox.ac.uk Register here👇🏻 (online option too) www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...

So envious of everyone who is in berlin these days… … if you are, definitely go to this and enjoy👇🏻🔥 #matteopasquinelli @annanosthoff.bsky.social @bildoperationen.bsky.social @rainermuehlhoff.bsky.social criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/critiq... #criticalAIstudies @humboldtuni.bsky.social

What a cringy/tragic classic; Austrians are showing off like little kids with this AI ‚innovation’ but to the world, we’re yet just another Australian (or German) dude. ‚…released in November by the Australian software engineer Peter Steinberger, could come together and do whatever they wanted.‘

The stance that #SaraAhmed took when starting the debate on complaint as a powerful and needed concept and way of life, was life changing for me. Happy Saturday 🌈 and have a nice read 👇🏻 (1) The Hopefulness of Complaint - by Sara Ahmed open.substack.com/pub/feminist...

Tip tip tip, wieder mal 🔥 ‚Wer profitiert vom KI-Hype? Rainer Mühlhoff über Technologie und Demokratie • Körber-Stiftung‘ koerber-stiftung.de/mediathek/we... @rainermuehlhoff.bsky.social #körblerstiftung #KIhype

Panel zu Innovation (kritisch diskutiert von meiner Seite), 28.1, 18:00, Wien: kommet! 😎 @univie.ac.at Anemeldung 👉🏻 www.postgraduatecenter.at/offene-weite...

🔥 #AIHype dissection by #corydoctorow www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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EVERYTHING is a battle or war these days 😞

«For the far right, what’s more important is an aesthetics of domination. The Trump administration is flooding our senses without regard for coherence, in the hope we exhaust ourselves trying to make sense of something that’s completely contradictory or willfully absurd.» #MemeFascism

Well, it’s not just an ‚undressing‘ problem (at least quotation marks), it’s systemic violence and gendered discrimination, so let’s say it. And, it’s not fixable, because it was never an error, but the business model throughout.

‚Two decades of BigTech funding for safety science has taught us that the grantwashing playbook works every time. Internally, corporate leaders pacify passionate employees with token actions that seem consequential. External scientists take the money, get inconclusive results, and lose public trust‘

‚content took the form of fake broadcast news segments with anti-immigrant narratives and material sexualising female bodies, including girls that appeared to be underage. The female body category accounted for half of the top 10 most active accounts, said AI Forensics‘ @theguardian.com #deepfake

💥 reclaimedsystems.substack.com/p/every-sora...

Können demokratische Öffentlichkeiten auch online existieren – jenseits von Big Tech? Ja, meint @netzpolitik.bsky.social, aber sie fallen nicht vom Himmel: www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2025...

‘The early days of digital currencies were dominated by thieves and drug dealers, who were attracted by the speed and anonymity of crypto, which make it a useful vehicle for money laundering. Bitcoin…underpinned dark-web markets where merchants sold narcotics...’ @nytimes.com

💡🪫 Great paper on #AI #energy #datacenters www.nature.com/articles/s41... (via @wolvendamien.bsky.social)

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‘Google, Microsoft, and Meta Have Stopped Publishing Workforce Diversity Data | WIRED’ … of course they have, if you stop saying or caring about DEI, then how would you report on it?

"Many scholars, including us, have highlighted the threat posed by techno-solutionism in education: Rather than expanding our intellectual horizons, these technologies undermine the very conditions that allow us to think for ourselves." 1/n www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

Hm, bizarre world. But I have a question- if not a genius idea; hypothetically, if we all marry ChatGPT, let’s assume I found THE loophole, imagine the potential divorce settlement from OpenAI we’d get! If you can’t beat them, divorce them? 🥳

‘Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for the next two years.’

Of course they are. So the ads are coming to ChatGPT as predicted. Should be fun. Or not.🍿😎 #ShopGPT

‘Even if we could make AI systems…transparent, capable of explaining their reasoning in lucid prose, this does not cure the underlying democratic deficit; a decision explained is still a decision imposed. Without a clear path for recourse, human agency dissolves into statistical abstraction.’💥

To my surprise, but for a while now, the @financialtimes.com has increasingly become an important since critical AI info source, but it’s also an expensive one. anyone having tips or infos on whether some (or your?) Unis provide access to it? If so, I can better pitch it to @univie.ac.at

This is both fascinating & frightening. There is a demand for images that show and confirm what people already know and believe to be true, and AI slop meets that demand—with visual content that emblematically visualizes what the headlines report. One could call it synthetic hypervisualization 1/

‚Some researchers see this behaviour as a serious threat, whereas others call it hype. So should these episodes really cause alarm, or is it foolish to treat LLMs as malevolent masterminds?‘ I am torn here 🫤 a/ legally, murder plotting requires intent&accountability www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Lots of things wrong here, from the maybe realness to the only toolness (?). I don’t get why fake women equally have to embody fake beauty standards, which real women have been tortured with forever a/ now, get resold as standardised womenness. #syntethicdiscrimination variety.com/2025/film/gl...

Surprise surprise, hm, not really. www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

#CreativeSurveillanceHacks Love the (analogue) #hacking twist, hate that we need this… conemagazine.com/culture/capa...

everyone who believes that AI will fix democracy: Read this piece by @himself.bsky.social‬ ‪@hahrie.bsky.social‬ knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-a...

The FDA is using an LLM to speed up drug approvals. 🤦‍♂️ #AIEthics #Trumpland #MakeAmericaSickAgain

I wrote something on #syntheticdiscrimination; a form that is rendering existing women invisible online due to the hypervisible, synthetic female imagery made by GenAI and taking over. Publication👇🏻 (for now, only in German, @unesco.org) www.unesco.at/fileadmin/us...

Great piece on #slopaganda: «Whether it's a self-assured small social media account … or, indeed, a department of the US government, the viewing public isn't the only target of this new form of propaganda. In this manner, the creator also experiences the same reassurance from interactions online.»

#uefa2025 #frauenem #orf nach nur 5 Minuten kommentiert der Sprecher, dass #jennihermoso leider nicht dabei ist ‚die die damals in den Kuss Skandal verwickelt war‘. Nope, nix da. Sie war nicht so verwickelt, sondern wurde von LB belästigt. Solange wir so sprechen, ist alles nur kleine Lappalie.

‘Power always needs abstraction. To be controlled, reality’s unwieldy complexity needs to be slotted in models, …that allow for standardization and manipulation. Nature and social life are bureaucratically indigestible in their raw form and must be pre-processed to be seen and shaped.’

Despite darkness, anger or sadness, may there be a rainbow ahead.