Back in Vienna and ready to party!

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Well „Ghost in the Machine“ is amazing, strong recommend. dighum.wien

Digital Humanism Conference 20...
Digital Humanism Conference 2026 – Orientation in turbulent times

There’s something disturbing though about the intense focus on something that wasn’t really mentioned in the film explicitly—a lot of the harms are more about human enhancement and transhumanism, not all of AI. And separately, a mad rush for power and wealth (which gets mentioned towards the middle.
This literally is what happens when you take a wrong turn on the 8 minute walk back to your hotel in Vienna #wien
AT acad of sci ÖAW.

Sadly, DE broke #eduroam — to defeat bot-in-the-middle attacks they’ve created one.

Btw I didn’t take a wrong turn last night, after a glass of water in the hof, my hotel was right outside! I just can’t bypass art.

More #dighum blathering: @[email protected]
#dighum @[email protected] complains about ppl reiterating work over the decade she's been in #AIEthics. Not only have I been here since the 1990s, I'm reading now about similar harms from new comms tech in 1840s & 1920s. (Yet someone complained to me this week about needing to know about 2024!)
Chowdhury is hitting a lot of great points – #AIFraud : sit your relatives down & teach them not to believe calls that sound and even look like you, to hang up and call you back to check.
Goodheart's Law, how AI vendors just build towards benchmarks; [same is true of AGI indicators] #digHum
Chowdhury – AI vendors right now only promise speed & efficiency, never quality. She is pushing for "structured auditing." She calls for #accountability #infrastructure. (I still hear her Accenture employee in how she presents & pushes her services, though it's super good to know. #dighum #AIAudits
Hopefully @[email protected] can tell me about the mind meeting — I hate to have had to choose! Oh whoops, I thought that was about AI as labour, it was about labour that makes AI so back into
Reminder, look for #dighum to get both versinos of my posts. Apparently there's also a #dighum2026 #tag which like why?? Why don't you want us to access your other dighum efforts too? Besides that it takes more characters! Anyway, @[email protected] gave an awesome keynote, more on that…
#dighum Rikap: the world's largest companies are extractive monopolies, some of nature directly, others via culture & knowledge.
I loved this because it's not just AI and cloud, but also pharma, consultancies, insurance companies etc. which I'd noticed commonality before but not put this name to it.
#dighum Rikap #dighum2026

McKinzie & al. are the ultimate complicit actors, pushing everyone into the cloud, changing what states are about, making governments just providers of services, not places where we collectively make decisions. This undermines democracy. #digitalGoverance #AIEthics