Niche issue, but… I’m really tired of people who lived in a monastery (Christian or Buddhist) for…like…6 months…and now are writing books, building apps and giving TEDTalks about how to use “monastic wisdom” to become CEOs. I don’t think you were paying attention during those 6 months.

My latest, a linguistic analysis of AI ethics guidelines. Roughly 7,000 statements coded from 87 ethics guidelines to determine how their authors conceive of ethical agency: link.springer.com/article/10.1.... #aiethics #linguistics #ethics

We're organizing an event on technological refusal in Maastricht, Feb '26 and I'm super excited about it. Details below 👇 Deadline for contributions Oct 31st. Come join us! www.aanmelder.nl/techrefusal

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

I have an article coming out soon in Science & Engineering Ethics which shows how ethics guidelines suppress and background ethical agents. One of the tactics is instrumentalization, which gives agency to AI and hides the true agents. Will update with link to the article once it is published.

numerous companies and banks have reversed course on #sustainability over the last few months. will it make a difference? probably not, because their “sustainability” programs weren’t doing anything in the first place. read my book to find out why.

things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes

I had a good time doing this interview and the result is a good window into my research. www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/news/ais-mor...

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Pleased to share my latest paper, in which I argue that bypassing AI developers' moral agency when we discuss #aiethics is morally unjustifiable. #ethics #artificialintelligence #machinelearning #datascience #professionalethics link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Saddened to learn of the death of Alasdair MacIntyre. His work has ben a huge influence in my own academic journey. It's virtues all the way down, folks.

Hear me out: you take the hard-won products of journalism, science, art and creativity, you use vast amounts of electrical energy during a time-sensitive energy transition to re-jumble the words and sentences, and then you present the outputs as being better and more trustworthy than the original

of my many gripes about my MPA program, #1 is the extent to which it went completely unacknowledged that policing and prisions (and the military) are never subject to the same frameworks of cost efficiency that social services are

The commercial capture of education is the point.

Populists always claim they are going to run the government like a business. It's always a grift.

Taking public transport in the Netherlands is like being on another planet than San Francisco. Dude out here cleaning the bus stop. Like, with water and a scrubber and squeegee.

Men will invent a tank full of algae before g̶o̶i̶n̶g̶ t̶o̶ t̶h̶e̶r̶a̶p̶y̶ planting trees.

I'm just going to leave this here:

BOOK THREAD in february, i published my book UNSUSTAINABLE: MEASUREMENT, REPORTING, AND THE LIMITS OF CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY with #NYUPress @capacademicbooks.bsky.social #greensky #anthrosky #geosky #newbook #sustainability #politicalecology nyupress.org/978147982201...

There should be a core undergraduate course called 'Useless Things' where you just enjoy stuff that cannot possibly be part of a career track.

This is...not wrong.

Was told that I should be using AI tools (i.e., LLMs) because men are using them in their work, and women aren't doing so in as high number. This bandwagon fallacy is so tired.

It's more insidious, more cynical, than destroying education. They want to capture the market.

The back-and-forth between ethicists and computer scientists is so common it's becoming cliché. Ethicists don't know how to code; coders don't know ethics. It's time to start bridging this divide in a more relational way. www.sciencedirect.com/journal/jour...

They do though. They _all_ know how to barricade themselves because school shooter drills were what the cops recommended instead of literally any kind of law enforcement that might prevent school shootings.

Dying of thirst is one of the most agonizing ways that a person can die. Imposing this fate on 2 million people, half of whom are children, is an unforgivable war crime that renders all other moral and political considerations utterly moot

Hello everyone! It's nice to be here. I'm a doctoral researcher in AI ethics. My interest is in ethical agency. Specifically, the ethical agency of AI developers. Here's a link to the first article for my PhD. link.springer.com/article/10.1...