Carine Roos

Key Questions on the Role of Technology in the Expanding Middle East War Tech Policy Press asked experts working at the intersection of technology policy, security, and international affairs to share what they are watching.

The expanding war in Iran brought to the fore questions about the role of technology in armed conflict, including the controversial use of new artificial intelligence technologies. Tech Policy Press invited perspectives from experts on what they are watching for as the situation unfolds.

PAIRS: Participatory Al Research & Practice Symposium 2026 Carine Roos is speaking at PAIRS 2026 on Resisting Big Tech: Countergovernance and the Making of Brazil's Digital Child Statute PAIRS 2026 in New Delhi, India - 18t February 2026 Find out more at www.pairs.site

📢 Introducing: Carine Roos, a researcher working at the intersection of AI, democracy, & human rights. With experience across academia, civil society, & international organisations, she has contributed to global debates on digital rights, digital sovereignty, & ethical AI.

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Very excited to share the newest contribution to the Symposium on #AI and #democracy on #countergovernance by the brilliant @carineroos.bsky.social 📢👇

How can #BigTech be resisted in the age of AI, so as to reclaim democratic imagination and better protect #collectiverights?

In this contribution of the Symposium on #AI & #Democracy, @carineroos.bsky.social

Read it here: www.law.kuleuven.be/ai-summer-sc...

One Year Trump.

Let the past year serve as a reminder of what a malicious, vindictive, greedy leader can do to a country in one year.

And let it be a reminder that a strong opposition, strong institutions, and independent and free media are necessary guardrails in a strong democracy.

Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United

Trump pulls out of long list of international organizations, conventions, treaties.... including (of particular note to digital rights folks) the Freedom Online Coalition. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Tracking Regulator Responses to the Grok 'Undressing' Controversy | TechPolicy.Press Regulators around the world are responding by opening inquiries, demanding takedowns, and threatening legal action against Elon Musk's company.

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has generated a flood of sexualized images of women and minors posted to the social media platform X. Regulators around the world are responding by opening inquiries, demanding takedowns, and threatening legal action. Tech Policy Press is tracking such responses.

New year, new (job) opportunities: Full professorship in Digital Society and Democracy.

What: excellent conditions, start-up and transition packages, interdisciplinary and supportive environment, wonderful colleagues.

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Today Dec 15 at 3.30pm Brazil (6.30 pm UK/7.30pm CET) I will be speaking about #digital #sovereignty at Brazil's Ministry of Management and Innovation organized by ENAP

Join online: youtube.com/live/ABLeek8...

This talk is part of @iipp-ucl.bsky.social 's applied learning program

Generative AI is Neither Too Unprecedented Nor Too New to Regulate | TechPolicy.Press It is time to recognize the myth of the “unprecedented” and hold tech accountable, writes Sarah Barrington.

While some elements of AI are genuinely new, the harms it enables are evolutions of those we have seen before, writes Sarah Barrington. It is time to recognize the myth of the “unprecedented” and hold tech accountable, she says.

Most of the discussion around America's AI strategy abroad has focused on the AI Action Plan - but perhaps more important was the Executive Order on exporting the AI stack.

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Radiohead - Daydreaming @ Movistar Arena Madrid 4-NOV-2025 (4K) YouTube video by NonanteNeuf

This is one of the things I miss most about London.
Radiohead will be performing there from November 21–25.
And to think they once revolutionized the industry by releasing In Rainbows online in 2007, letting people download it and choose their own price.
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The Authoritarian Stack How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next

«Silicon Valley isn’t building apps anymore.
It’s building empires.»

The Authoritarian Stack: A mapping of firms, funds, and political actors turning core state functions into private platforms, by @francescabria.bsky.social et. al. for @fesonline.bsky.social
www.authoritarian-stack.info

Why Digital Sovereignty Matters Amazon and Microsoft’s cloud blackouts paralysed public services across the globe this autumn — a warning of what happens when essential infrastructure is left in the hands of private US monopolies.

What can we learn from @awscloud.bsky.social and @microsoft.com recent cloud blackouts?

The extent of dependency is so deep & widespread that we must develop #digital #sovereignty

This is what @paologerbaudo.bsky.social & I explain for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social

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Elon Musk’s Grokipedia is a major own goal Humans might be highly imperfect and biased but they are still better than AI at getting to the truth

"This week Elon Musk proudly launched his latest venture — not electric cars, not space exploration, not satellites, not tunnels, not social media, not brain implants, not the rolling back of the administrative state... but something altogether more fundamental: a new version of the truth."

Today is the official UK publication day for Silicon Empires! I'm excited to have it out and hear what people think.

There's an enormous amount happening every day in AI, and it's difficult to gain a stable perspective. I wrote the book to try and get some secure hold on that constant flux. 🧵

Lula says ‘Tyrania do Veto’ prevents UN from avoiding ‘atrocities’ and again says that Gaza suffers ‘genocide’ President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT) said on Monday (22) that the "tyranny of the veto" prevents the United Nations Security Council (UN) from preventing "atrocities". The president also again said that the people who live in the Gaza Strip have a "genocide". "The tyranny of the veto sabotes the very reason why UN prevent atrocities from recurring," said the president.

Lula says ‘Tyrania do Veto’ prevents UN from avoiding ‘atrocities’ and again says that Gaza suffers ‘genocide’

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT) said on Monday (22) that the "tyranny of the veto" prevents the United Nations Security Council (UN) from preventing "atrocities". The president…

Always a pleasure to come back to LSE, even for a short visit

Opinion | Lula: Brazilian Democracy and Sovereignty Are Non-Negotiable The president of Brazil calls U.S. tariffs on his country “not only misguided but also illogical” and defends former President Jair Bolsonaro’s conviction.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“The U.S. government is using tariffs and the Magnitsky Act to seek impunity for former President Jair Bolsonaro, who orchestrated a failed coup attempt on Jan. 8, 2023, in an effort to subvert the popular will,” writes President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil.

Raining day in London (as always). It couldn't feel more nostalgic

Brazil’s supreme court finds Bolsonaro guilty of plotting military coup Former president faces decades-long jail sentence for seeking to forcibly cling to power after losing 2022 election

"A majority of Brazil’s supreme court judges have voted to convict the country’s former president Jair Bolsonaro of plotting a military coup, leaving the far-right populist facing a decades-long sentence for leading the criminal conspiracy." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

🫳 A MÃO INVISÍVEL DAS BIG TECHS | Ao longo de nove meses, 17 organizações de jornalismo, lideradas pela Pública e pelo CLIP, fizeram reportagens sobre as estratégias de influência das Big Techs em 13 países. A primeira parte desta série acaba de ser lançada. Siga o fio!

World leaders must stop appeasing Donald Trump Conceding to Trump’s demands only guarantees new threats. It’s time to reject the US and its tech companies.

Western leaders have appeased Donald Trump since he returned to power, only to be hit with new demands after every concession.

On Tuesday, Trump declared economic war on countries that regulate its tech companies. It’s time for the world to break from the US and aggressively target Silicon Valley.

Brazil offers a lesson in democracy to an America that is becoming more corrupt, protectionist and authoritarian econ.st/4peBqLR

What the techno-feudalism prophets get wrong Subscribers // by Evgeny Morozov (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, August 2025)

One of the sharpest critiques I’ve read of the “techno-feudalism” hype is this essay by @evgenymorozov.bsky.social in Le Monde diplomatique. Well worth the read: mondediplo.com/2025/08/02te...

Why Countries Must Fight For Digital Sovereignty w/ Cecilia Rikap - Tech Won’t Save Us A left-wing podcast for better technology and a better world.

Loved this interview with @ceciliarikap.bsky.social on @techwontsave.us. A sharp and timely analysis of digital sovereignty and how countries can resist Big Tech dependence. Must-listen!
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‘Headed for technofascism’: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley The industry’s liberal reputation is misleading. Its reactionary tendencies – celebrating wealth, power and traditional masculinity – have been clear since the dotcom mania of the 1990s

Powerful analysis by @beccalew.bsky.social in @theguardian.com what looks like a recent backlash against diversity on digital platforms is in fact rooted in the 1990s, when masculinity, entrepreneurship & deregulation fused into a high-tech civilizational project www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

The Weaponized World Economy When Washington announced a “framework deal” with China in June, it marked a silent shifting of gears in the global political economy. This was not the beginning of U.S. President Donald Trump’s imagi...

Great piece on The Weaponized World Economy by @himself.bsky.social and @abenewman.bsky.social. Important contribution to the debate on weaponized interdependence, but still missing the Global South’s perspective.

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Trump/Brazil: Delusions of Grandeur Go South Trump thinks he can rule the world, but he doesn’t have the juice

"Do Trump and his advisors really think they can use tariffs to bully a nation of + 200 million people into dropping its efforts to defend democracy, when it sells 88 % of its exports to countries other than the United States?" Love it @pkrugman.bsky.social paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trumpbrazi...