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Eugenia Stamboliev

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Philosopher of technology and media @Uni Vienna / Visiting research fellow @Oxford University @OII /works on AI, ethics, democracy, trust and gender discrimination / board member Women in AI / eugeniastamboliev.com

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Latest posts by Eugenia Stamboliev @eugeniaunivie

Thanks again :)

01.03.2026 16:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A Democratic View on Trustworthy AI: From Worrying About Fabrications to Looking at Vulnerability
A Democratic View on Trustworthy AI: From Worrying About Fabrications to Looking at Vulnerability YouTube video by Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford

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)

28.02.2026 03:46 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
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In Age of Disruption, a Defense of Incrementalism Evan Selinger and Albert Fox Cahn are the authors of Move Slow and Upgrade: The Power of Incremental Innovation.

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.”

01.03.2026 14:36 👍 109 🔁 24 💬 6 📌 0
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Trump orders US agencies to stop use of Anthropic technology amid dispute over ethics of AI Hours after exclusion of Anthropic, OpenAI announces fresh Pentagon deal, but says it will maintain same safety guardrails at the heart of the dispute

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...

28.02.2026 09:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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/...

18.02.2026 14:44 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei Warns Of ‘Geniuses In Data Centers’ At India AI Impact Summit 2026
Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei Warns Of ‘Geniuses In Data Centers’ At India AI Impact Summit 2026 YouTube video by Business Today

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...

19.02.2026 22:31 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 4
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Moltbook was peak AI theater The viral social network for bots reveals more about our own current mania for AI as it does about the future of agents.

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...

17.02.2026 23:36 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I Tried RentAHuman, Where AI Agents Hired Me to Hype Their AI Startups Rather than offering a revolutionary new approach to gig work, RentAHuman is filled with bots that just want me to be another cog in the AI hype machine.

This is turning very dadaistic but also too real

www.wired.com/story/i-trie...

13.02.2026 21:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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OII | A Democratic View on Trustworthy AI: From Worrying About Fabrications to Looking at Vulnerability This talk will introduce the concept of democratic trustworthiness of AI, shifting the focus from thinking about AI users to protecting citizens; and from output expectations to protected interests wi...

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/...

11.02.2026 11:43 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Critique of AI - KTB with Matteo Pasquinelli (Ca’ Foscari University Venice), Anna-Verena Nosthoff (Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg), Roland Meyer (University of Zurich & Zurich University of the Arts), Rainer ...

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

11.02.2026 11:36 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

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.‘

07.02.2026 20:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Hopefulness of Complaint A lecture delivered for the Transform Theory, Policy, and Practice: Decolonise Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) in Higher Education (HE) conference, Westminster University on February 6, 2026.*

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...

07.02.2026 11:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Wer profitiert vom KI-Hype? Rainer Mühlhoff über Technologie und Demokratie Was passiert, wenn KI-Hype, Tech-Industrie und rechte Politik zusammenwirken? Der Philosoph und Mathematiker Rainer Mühlhoff warnt vor einer Allianz aus Technologie, Macht und autoritären Ideologien. ...

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

03.02.2026 14:02 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Anmeldung: Podiumsdiskussion Anmeldung: Podiumsdiskussion

Panel zu Innovation (kritisch diskutiert von meiner Seite), 28.1, 18:00, Wien: kommet! 😎
@univie.ac.at

Anemeldung 👉🏻 www.postgraduatecenter.at/offene-weite...

26.01.2026 11:31 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

🔥 #AIHype dissection by #corydoctorow

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

18.01.2026 21:50 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Ads Are Coming to ChatGPT. Here’s How They’ll Work OpenAI says ads will not influence ChatGPT’s responses, and that it won’t sell user data to advertisers.

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17.01.2026 12:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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EVERYTHING is a battle or war these days 😞

14.01.2026 18:35 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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The End Goal of Trump’s Cringey, Nonsensical Videos Trump’s use of the antiwar song “Fortunate Son” in a video of the military raid in Venezuela was no mistake. It’s part of a very deliberate far-right aesthetic.

«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

10.01.2026 17:57 👍 83 🔁 22 💬 2 📌 1

Yep problem solved, check.

11.01.2026 09:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I get your point and agree, interesting question, as I simply think men are lucky not being used as objects. technically speaking, Grok should not know the difference, right? But it’s much more than ‚blame AI‘, it’s a massive (old) culture, business and politics behind it

11.01.2026 09:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Dear Joanna, not sure I get the questions. hopefully, we agree that most AI imagery apps are cashing in on non consensual sexual imagery of women. wouldn’t say men are equally ‚disrobed‘ (undressed?). B/ to me it’s more about women‘s right to their image &represent.: less about dressing scale.

10.01.2026 14:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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X Didn’t Fix Grok's ‘Undressing’ Problem. It Just Makes People Pay for It X is allowing only “verified” users to create images with Grok. Experts say it represents the “monetization of abuse”—and anyone can still generate images on Grok’s app and website.

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.

10.01.2026 12:55 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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2025 Was a Year of Collective Mourning for Disabled Communities If we can create and build on communal structures of care, we can hold that grief together more easily.

truthout.org/articles/202...

06.01.2026 08:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Beware of OpenAI's 'Grantwashing' on AI Harms | TechPolicy.Press J. Nathan Matias and Avriel Epps say OpenAI's announced research funding is the perfect corporate action to make sure we don't find answers for years.

‚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‘

18.12.2025 19:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Emotional Labor Behind AI Intimacy, by Michael Geoffrey Asia. Imagine confiding your most private fantasies to what you believe is an unfeeling algorithm that cannot judge or remember. Now imagine that on the other side of that conversation is a man sitting in a...

data-workers.org/michael/

09.12.2025 18:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Anti-immigrant material among AI-generated content getting billions of views on TikTok Researchers uncovered 354 AI-focused accounts that had accumulated 4.5bn views in a month

‚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

05.12.2025 19:39 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Every Sora AI video burns 1 Kilowatt hour and emits 466 grams of carbon. And for what, exactly? The Sora 2 platform alone emits nearly a quarter of the carbon of all Meta/Facebook

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

22.11.2025 11:43 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Die Entkernung der Demokratie Die reichsten und mächtigsten Menschen der Welt reihen sich hinter einem autoritären Herrscher ein, dessen Regierung die US-Demokratie zerstört. Der rechte Autoritarismus schreitet voran – politisch,…

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...

18.11.2025 09:00 👍 26 🔁 20 💬 0 📌 0
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The Crypto Industry’s $28 Billion in ‘Dirty Money’

‘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

17.11.2025 22:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Environmental impact and net-zero pathways for sustainable artificial intelligence servers in the USA - Nature Sustainability The rapid expansion of AI server installations in the United States poses sustainability challenges in terms of water usage and carbon emissions. A study now quantifies these potential impacts and out...

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

15.11.2025 08:38 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0