Andrew Erickson
@aderickson.bsky.social
Associate Researcher and PhD candidate, SchauflerLab@TU Dresden
#AmericanStudies #speculativefiction, #CriticalFutures, oh, and cycling + haikus on Strava
#AmericanStudies #speculativefiction, #CriticalFutures, oh, and cycling + haikus on Strava
Hashtag data science
November 1, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Hashtag data science
Tricky
November 1, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Tricky
Somehow it seems to me that the machines are not the problem but rather a symptom
AI models may be developing their own ‘survival drive’, researchers say
AI models may be developing their own ‘survival drive’, researchers say
Like 2001: A Space Odyssey’s HAL 9000, some AIs seem to resist being turned off and will even sabotage shutdown
When HAL 9000, the artificial intelligence supercomputer in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, works out that the astronauts onboard a mission to Jupiter are planning to shut it down, it plots to kill them in an attempt to survive.
Now, in a somewhat less deadly case (so far) of life imitating art, an AI safety research company has said that AI models may be developing their own “survival drive”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Somehow it seems to me that the machines are not the problem but rather a symptom
You guys, I made it, I’m now truly German
Danke, Airbnb-Host-Erich!
Danke, Airbnb-Host-Erich!
October 18, 2025 at 5:45 PM
You guys, I made it, I’m now truly German
Danke, Airbnb-Host-Erich!
Danke, Airbnb-Host-Erich!
What happens when a second peer reviewer meets a goodreads one-star review writer?
October 16, 2025 at 8:30 AM
What happens when a second peer reviewer meets a goodreads one-star review writer?
Some folks are learning entirely the wrong lessons from science fiction’s cautionary tales
+ shoutout to my colleague and friend, Karoline, for research that meets its moment (!)
lareviewofbooks.org/article/life...
+ shoutout to my colleague and friend, Karoline, for research that meets its moment (!)
lareviewofbooks.org/article/life...
Life Finds an Investor | Los Angeles Review of Books
Karoline Huber discusses the phenomenon of “de-extinction” in SF and popular culture.
lareviewofbooks.org
October 15, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Some folks are learning entirely the wrong lessons from science fiction’s cautionary tales
+ shoutout to my colleague and friend, Karoline, for research that meets its moment (!)
lareviewofbooks.org/article/life...
+ shoutout to my colleague and friend, Karoline, for research that meets its moment (!)
lareviewofbooks.org/article/life...
Reposted by Andrew Erickson
Looking forward to joining Shoshana Zuboff and Cathy O'Neil this week at the Harvard Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights for a conversation on democratic resilience in the age of AI and tech power concentration.
Join us October 16, 5-6pm ET. You can register here: www.hks.harvard.edu/events/surve...
Join us October 16, 5-6pm ET. You can register here: www.hks.harvard.edu/events/surve...
October 11, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Looking forward to joining Shoshana Zuboff and Cathy O'Neil this week at the Harvard Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights for a conversation on democratic resilience in the age of AI and tech power concentration.
Join us October 16, 5-6pm ET. You can register here: www.hks.harvard.edu/events/surve...
Join us October 16, 5-6pm ET. You can register here: www.hks.harvard.edu/events/surve...
It’s like they looked into my soul
October 11, 2025 at 6:34 PM
It’s like they looked into my soul
Reposted by Andrew Erickson
✨ Join our team!
In meiner Forschungsgruppe "Ethik und kritische Theorien der KI" gibt es bald neue Stellen: Professurvertretung, Postdoc, Ph.D., SHKs.
Themen: #KI-Ethik, #Datenschutz, #Demokratieresilienz, KI & Schule.
Infos: rainermuehlhoff.de/join-our-team/
#AI #Philosophie #STS #Bildung
In meiner Forschungsgruppe "Ethik und kritische Theorien der KI" gibt es bald neue Stellen: Professurvertretung, Postdoc, Ph.D., SHKs.
Themen: #KI-Ethik, #Datenschutz, #Demokratieresilienz, KI & Schule.
Infos: rainermuehlhoff.de/join-our-team/
#AI #Philosophie #STS #Bildung
Join our team! Offene Stellen in der AG Ethik und Kritische Theorien der KI
In meiner Forschungsgruppe gibt es in der nächsten Zeit neue Stellen auf allen Leveln (Professurvertretung, Postdoc, Ph.D., stud. Mitarbeitende).
rainermuehlhoff.de
September 25, 2025 at 8:24 AM
✨ Join our team!
In meiner Forschungsgruppe "Ethik und kritische Theorien der KI" gibt es bald neue Stellen: Professurvertretung, Postdoc, Ph.D., SHKs.
Themen: #KI-Ethik, #Datenschutz, #Demokratieresilienz, KI & Schule.
Infos: rainermuehlhoff.de/join-our-team/
#AI #Philosophie #STS #Bildung
In meiner Forschungsgruppe "Ethik und kritische Theorien der KI" gibt es bald neue Stellen: Professurvertretung, Postdoc, Ph.D., SHKs.
Themen: #KI-Ethik, #Datenschutz, #Demokratieresilienz, KI & Schule.
Infos: rainermuehlhoff.de/join-our-team/
#AI #Philosophie #STS #Bildung
Reposted by Andrew Erickson
Depression ist eine weit verbreitete Krankheit. Genauso weit verbreitet ist nach wie vor ihre Stigmatisierung. Menschen mit Depression haben oft mit gesellschaftlicher Abwertung zu kämpfen.
Der 5. Oktober ist Tag der Depression. Ein Hinweis, besser mit dieser (oft tödlichen) Krankheit umzugehen.
Der 5. Oktober ist Tag der Depression. Ein Hinweis, besser mit dieser (oft tödlichen) Krankheit umzugehen.
Europäischer Depressionstag: Dauerkrisen und Belastung führen in die Erkrankung – Deutsches Ärzteblatt
www.aerzteblatt.de
October 5, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Depression ist eine weit verbreitete Krankheit. Genauso weit verbreitet ist nach wie vor ihre Stigmatisierung. Menschen mit Depression haben oft mit gesellschaftlicher Abwertung zu kämpfen.
Der 5. Oktober ist Tag der Depression. Ein Hinweis, besser mit dieser (oft tödlichen) Krankheit umzugehen.
Der 5. Oktober ist Tag der Depression. Ein Hinweis, besser mit dieser (oft tödlichen) Krankheit umzugehen.
Centering a diversity of perspectives remains essential to knowledge and truth
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Germany’s anti-diversity backlash isn’t fatigue – it’s strategy masquerading as neutrality | Fatma Aydemir
Neither Trump’s US nor the rise of the AfD explains it all. Self-styled progressives in the arts must take a hard look at themselves too, says Guardian Europe columnist Fatma Aydemir
www.theguardian.com
September 30, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Centering a diversity of perspectives remains essential to knowledge and truth
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
One is reminded that trains exist (and in Germany will be delayed until the management bros, who are definitely already working on how to use this cyber attack as an excuse to keep fucking up, are all fired and replaced with competent humans) :winkyface
@deutschebahn.com
@deutschebahn.com
September 22, 2025 at 8:20 AM
One is reminded that trains exist (and in Germany will be delayed until the management bros, who are definitely already working on how to use this cyber attack as an excuse to keep fucking up, are all fired and replaced with competent humans) :winkyface
@deutschebahn.com
@deutschebahn.com
Monday mood: “this having meetings so we can plan to have meetings business is bullshit. I want to talk about ancillaries."
—Ann Leckie, _Ancillary Mercy_
—Ann Leckie, _Ancillary Mercy_
September 22, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Monday mood: “this having meetings so we can plan to have meetings business is bullshit. I want to talk about ancillaries."
—Ann Leckie, _Ancillary Mercy_
—Ann Leckie, _Ancillary Mercy_
Reading remains an act of protest
Ray Bradbury wrote in the afterword to Fahrenheit 451 that “you don't have to burn books, do you, if the world starts to fill up with non-readers, non-learners, non-knowers?” (225)
That guy had seen the future—our present.
That guy had seen the future—our present.
September 8, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Reading remains an act of protest
SF futures modeling continues to offer essential knowledge about human being and becoming
Fascinating collection I have some work in too - came out of a top level brainstorming project about future tech and culture.
I have a story in this fascinating upcoming anthology
www.flametreepublishing.com/creative-fut...
www.flametreepublishing.com/creative-fut...
August 28, 2025 at 7:12 AM
SF futures modeling continues to offer essential knowledge about human being and becoming
Here there be bots
August 20, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Here there be bots
I swear to god I don’t know what he’s taking about
Ah edits, and writing a long paragraph of text justifying why your original should remain, before realising that the editor’s version is better.
August 19, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I swear to god I don’t know what he’s taking about
Dystopian SF imaginaries are real:
"only a belief system as flamboyantly science-fictional as reactionary futurism can project a potential world extravagant enough to justify the techno-fascists’ disregard for actual human life"
lareviewofbooks.org/article/reac...
"only a belief system as flamboyantly science-fictional as reactionary futurism can project a potential world extravagant enough to justify the techno-fascists’ disregard for actual human life"
lareviewofbooks.org/article/reac...
Reactionary Futurism 2025 | Los Angeles Review of Books
Jordan S. Carroll reviews recent scholarship on the alt-right.
lareviewofbooks.org
August 14, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Dystopian SF imaginaries are real:
"only a belief system as flamboyantly science-fictional as reactionary futurism can project a potential world extravagant enough to justify the techno-fascists’ disregard for actual human life"
lareviewofbooks.org/article/reac...
"only a belief system as flamboyantly science-fictional as reactionary futurism can project a potential world extravagant enough to justify the techno-fascists’ disregard for actual human life"
lareviewofbooks.org/article/reac...
I know I’m late to the (literal) game, but mine was stolen (separate story) in 2022 (a rough year—again a separate story). Anyway, I just wanted to say that I’m chuffed that magical apostrophes are the “secret power” in Tears of the Kingdom. Grammatical wins are always deeply satisfying.
August 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I know I’m late to the (literal) game, but mine was stolen (separate story) in 2022 (a rough year—again a separate story). Anyway, I just wanted to say that I’m chuffed that magical apostrophes are the “secret power” in Tears of the Kingdom. Grammatical wins are always deeply satisfying.
Do you think they’ve heard of Stepford Wives? It’s weird to see the worst historical SF ideas centered in contemporary rightwing fantasies.
This Ohio Farm Community Is a Mecca for the ‘MAHA Mom’ www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/u...
This Ohio Farm Community Is a Mecca for the ‘MAHA Mom’ www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/u...
This Ohio Farm Community Is a Mecca for the ‘MAHA Mom’
www.nytimes.com
August 12, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Do you think they’ve heard of Stepford Wives? It’s weird to see the worst historical SF ideas centered in contemporary rightwing fantasies.
This Ohio Farm Community Is a Mecca for the ‘MAHA Mom’ www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/u...
This Ohio Farm Community Is a Mecca for the ‘MAHA Mom’ www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/u...
Is it just me, or are these all the same guy?
August 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Is it just me, or are these all the same guy?
SFRA in Rochester fed me intellectually and spiritually. Good research and great friends make this work worthwhile.
August 4, 2025 at 3:59 AM
SFRA in Rochester fed me intellectually and spiritually. Good research and great friends make this work worthwhile.
