"yeah the summer was great. super relaxing. recharged and ready to dive back into work"

I made this for a keynote address but thought I'd share it here too.

To the public, Microsoft uses its reputation as an AI & sustainability leader to tell a compelling story: AI will do wonders to help solve the climate crisis. To fossil-fuel firms, Microsoft has a different message: AI will help them drill, baby, drill. 1/ theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

It was the nicest surprise to receive the students’ award for best teaching assistant in our philosophy program at @UAntwerpenFLW. I’m sure that I learn at least as much from my students as, I hope, they do from me.

Tomorrow, I will be moderating a panel on Diamond Open Access publishing at the NWO Nieuws National Open Science Festival in Maastricht with Olya Kudina (JournalHumTech), Ryan Wittingslow (Philosophy of the City) and Guido Löhr (Philosophy of AI). Looking forward! 📰🌐 opensciencefestival.nl/en/programme/n…

Yesterday, Olya Kudina and I represented JournalHumTech at the NWO Nieuws National Open Science Festival in Maastricht. Thank you Ryan Wittingslow and Guido Löhr for an inspiring discussion on #DiamondOpenAccess publishing in philosophy of technology and beyond!

Had a great time at the History of the Philosophy of Technology conference FASoS Maastricht presenting my work on Arendt, Derrida and postphenomenology. Thank you @MassSimons and Darryl Cressman for bringing together so many interesting people! 🙏🏻

As OpenAI and Meta introduce LLM-driven searchbots, I'd like to once again remind people that neither LLMs nor chatbots are good technology for information access. A thread, with links: >>

Following a successful paper track at the last DRS conference, the Design Ethics SIG is organising a special issue on Design Ethics for the Journal of Human-Technology Relations. Check out the call for papers below! designresearchsociety.org/events/call-fo…

data is all you need

If anyone’s still on here: happy to share the Call for Abstracts for a conference on Arendt and technology in Brussels! Deadline 28 March. 👉🏻Everything you need to know: ethu.research.vub.be/cfa-coming-to-…

🎉 New article out in AI & Society! 🔍 My article challenges the idea that algorithms replace human judgment. Instead, they mediate the human-world relations in which judgments and self-reflection arise. 💬 Happy to discuss! Read it here: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

🔍 How do we experience social media algorithms? Is there such a thing? My latest article in Minds and Machines challenges the black box metaphor and uses phenomenology to rethink algorithms. Happy to discuss! 📖 Read here: rdcu.be/ecjqm

Vandaag verscheen mijn opiniestuk in De Morgen.be. In het stuk reageer ik op Vlaams minister van Media Cieltje Van Achters analyse van sociale media als de “nieuwe verzuiling”. Ik betoog dat deze metafoor te eenvoudig is. demorgen.be/meningen/de-po…