🔴 Starting in a few minutes: the livestream of the opening keynote at #WiConf26!

🎤 Nick #Srnicek will deliver his keynote, The Rise of Silicon Empires, exploring the growing power and influence of major technology companies in shaping our digital future.

📺 Join the livestream here:
https://www.youtube.com/@weizenbauminstitut/featured

🚀 The Weizenbaum Conference 2026 is almost here!

On 10–11 June, researchers from around the world will come together in Berlin to discuss the social, political, and economic implications of generative AI.

Highlights include:

📅 10 June
🎤 Keynote: Nick #Srnicek (King's College London)
💬 Panel Discussion: Artificial Intelligence, Power Concentration, and Politics: Has Big Tech Taken Over?

@WZB_Berlin @FraunhoferFOKUS #WIConf26

"Inventing the Future" by Nick #Srnicek (2015) is a political and philosophical journey leading to 3 mutually-reinforcing demands:
1. Full automation
2. Universal basic income
3. Reduced work-time

Automation is great when its rewards are shared: the Luddites protested not the machines, but the concentration of capital.

It seems there's not been a better occasion to demand full automation - many are doing that already.

Now is the time to agitate for #UBI and reduced work-time (again.)