Carissa Véliz

Thank you! 😁

I predict this will be a terrific book!

I feel the same way regarding my family :)

Huge thanks! Book launch in NYC on 21 April with Tim, in case you’re in the neighborhood:)

Prophecy is about how power uses predictions to build the future they want, and how we should build the future we want. It has oracles, astrologers, sociologists, philosophers, and tech execs as protagonists, as well as stories from the ancient world, academia, and business.

Prophecy by Carissa Véliz: 9780385550970 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books From an award-winning University of Oxford professor comes a brilliant, urgent new look at prophecies—the predictions that determine our lives, from our personal finances and the quality of our health...

To pre-order the book:

US: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/759692...

UK (pre-order the hardcover, the paperback will get cancelled): www.amazon.co.uk/Prophecy-Pre...

...Prophecy unravels the many ways prediction has become a mainstay of our existence, and in its own way, a source of power over our lives. A great read that will make you think."

— Tim Wu, Columbia Law Professor and author of Merchants of Attention and The Age of Extraction

Grateful to Tim Wu (@superwuster.bsky.social) for this wonderful #bookrecommendation for #PROPHECY: "Some of the best books are those that make you examine that which you take for granted in daily life...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/759692...

Thank you 🙏😊😊😊

We'll change the title of the event to something more accurate, like: Why AI is the new Oracle of Delphi (why that is bad news, and what to do about it).

Absolutely thrilled to share that the book launch for #PROPHECY will be on 21 April in New York City, at 92Y, with none other than the amazing Tim Wu @superwuster.bsky.social ! Join us, either in person, or via streaming. And help me spread the word?

#books #authors

www.92ny.org/event/cariss...

Prophecy by Carissa Véliz: 9780385550970 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books From an award-winning University of Oxford professor comes a brilliant, urgent new look at prophecies—the predictions that determine our lives, from our personal finances and the quality of our health...

...often acting as the avatars of hidden (or not so hidden) power. Written with verve, acuity, and humour, this is essential reading for the times we live in.” To pre-order the #book: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/759692...

Very grateful to the amazing @anilseth.bsky.social for this wonderful blurb: "The world runs on predictions, and it always has. Readable and rigorous, #Prophecy uncovers how predictions have shaped our lives from ancient Greece to the new oracles of AI...

Mil mil gracias

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.

¡Gracias!

6 de junio con Debate @debatelibros.bsky.social 😁😁😁

6 de junio con Debate! :)

Huge thanks, Derek. Much appreciated 🙏

Massive thanks, Pablo 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Prophecy by Carissa Véliz: 9780385550970 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books From an award-winning University of Oxford professor comes a brilliant, urgent new look at prophecies—the predictions that determine our lives, from our personal finances and the quality of our health...

Please pre-order #book if you haven't already; you'll make this author's day:

US: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/759692... UK: amzn.eu/d/0aNfVv1B

Blackwell's for worldwide: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

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. 🙏🙏🙏

(Review also discusses books by @maxkasy.bsky.social and @beenwrekt.bsky.social). Check them out!

Prophecy by Carissa Véliz: 9780385550970 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books From an award-winning University of Oxford professor comes a brilliant, urgent new look at prophecies—the predictions that determine our lives, from our personal finances and the quality of our health...

Please pre-order to create the kind of self-fulfilling prophecy that plays in our favor, us authors, us readers, us citizens concerned about the role tech is playing:

US: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/759692...

UK: amzn.eu/d/0aNfVv1B

Blackwell's for worldwide: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

"...This idea animates Carissa Véliz’s wonderfully wide-ranging polemic", #PROPHECY

#bookrecommendation

The robots who predict the future Three books unpack our infatuation with prediction, and what we lose when we outsource this task to machines.

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».

The robots who predict the future Three books unpack our infatuation with prediction, and what we lose when we outsource this task to machines.

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 )

Thank you! 😊🙏

Thanks so much 🙏🙏🙏