Dr. Christiane Grünloh
@cgruenloh.bsky.social
PhD in Human-Computer Interaction | Head of #UX at Nedap | she/her | Books - Nature - Vipassana | DE - NL - EN
Passionate about human-centered and value-sensitive #eHealth design that empowers people, improves healthcare and doesn’t destroy the planet.
Passionate about human-centered and value-sensitive #eHealth design that empowers people, improves healthcare and doesn’t destroy the planet.
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I was once described as a ferrero rocher of a human being: tough spikey outside, sweet nougatey inside, with a dependable hazelnut center.
They were high, but I still treasure it.
They were high, but I still treasure it.
October 24, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I was once described as a ferrero rocher of a human being: tough spikey outside, sweet nougatey inside, with a dependable hazelnut center.
They were high, but I still treasure it.
They were high, but I still treasure it.
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It's unbelievable that people fall for LLMs sentience. I was just talking to my calculator about it while it offered opinions about my math questions.
November 26, 2025 at 6:54 PM
It's unbelievable that people fall for LLMs sentience. I was just talking to my calculator about it while it offered opinions about my math questions.
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In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly.
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
November 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM
In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly.
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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Fast gets you two essential things: you get revenue sooner, and you get the feedback you need to ensure you’re building something the market actually wants.
“Move fast” doesn't mean: get low-quality buggy garbage out the door faster. That slows you down.
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“Move fast” doesn't mean: get low-quality buggy garbage out the door faster. That slows you down.
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November 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Fast gets you two essential things: you get revenue sooner, and you get the feedback you need to ensure you’re building something the market actually wants.
“Move fast” doesn't mean: get low-quality buggy garbage out the door faster. That slows you down.
3/12
“Move fast” doesn't mean: get low-quality buggy garbage out the door faster. That slows you down.
3/12
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Verbot umwelt- und gesundheitsschädlicher Einweg-E-Zigaretten: Bundesregierung will unserer Forderung nachkommen. Endlich! Jetzt keine weitere Zeit verlieren, Gesundheitsministerin Nina Warken, und Tabakerzeugnisverordnung entsprechend anpassen! www.duh.de/presse/press...
Nach DUH-Forderung: Verbot für Einweg-E-Zigaretten soll kommen
• DUH fordert nun schnelle Umsetzung durch Gesundheitsministerin Nina Warken• Ruf nach Verbot wird von breitem Bündnis aus Gesundheits-, Kinderschutz-, Umweltschutz- und Branchenverbänden unterstützt•...
www.duh.de
November 22, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Verbot umwelt- und gesundheitsschädlicher Einweg-E-Zigaretten: Bundesregierung will unserer Forderung nachkommen. Endlich! Jetzt keine weitere Zeit verlieren, Gesundheitsministerin Nina Warken, und Tabakerzeugnisverordnung entsprechend anpassen! www.duh.de/presse/press...
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Incredibly bad faith and silly comparison. Libraries are public, not-for-profit entities that don't steal the books that are in their stacks. They actually pay publishers for subscriptions in order to gain access.
November 19, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Incredibly bad faith and silly comparison. Libraries are public, not-for-profit entities that don't steal the books that are in their stacks. They actually pay publishers for subscriptions in order to gain access.
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This is terrifying.
"[AI agents] can... infer a researcher's latent hypotheses and produce data that artificially confirms them."
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"We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people" [email protected]
"[AI agents] can... infer a researcher's latent hypotheses and produce data that artificially confirms them."
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"We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people" [email protected]
November 18, 2025 at 9:03 PM
This is terrifying.
"[AI agents] can... infer a researcher's latent hypotheses and produce data that artificially confirms them."
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"We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people" [email protected]
"[AI agents] can... infer a researcher's latent hypotheses and produce data that artificially confirms them."
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"We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people" [email protected]
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Jens Spahn ist stolz darauf, dass es bald wieder mehr innerdeutschen Flugverkehr gibt und lässt sich für die Senkung der Luftverkehrssteuer feiern.
Parallel läuft die 30. Welt-Klimakonferenz.
Parallel läuft die 30. Welt-Klimakonferenz.
November 16, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Jens Spahn ist stolz darauf, dass es bald wieder mehr innerdeutschen Flugverkehr gibt und lässt sich für die Senkung der Luftverkehrssteuer feiern.
Parallel läuft die 30. Welt-Klimakonferenz.
Parallel läuft die 30. Welt-Klimakonferenz.
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These examples are from a recent mixed-methods study from MIT (arxiv.org/abs/2509.11391) that also found that "AI companionship rarely begins intentionally: 10.2% developed relationships unintentionally through productivity-focused interactions, while only 6.5% deliberately sought AI companions."
"My Boyfriend is AI": A Computational Analysis of Human-AI Companionship in Reddit's AI Community
The emergence of AI companion applications has created novel forms of intimate human-AI relationships, yet empirical research on these communities remains limited. We present the first large-scale com...
arxiv.org
November 16, 2025 at 5:23 AM
These examples are from a recent mixed-methods study from MIT (arxiv.org/abs/2509.11391) that also found that "AI companionship rarely begins intentionally: 10.2% developed relationships unintentionally through productivity-focused interactions, while only 6.5% deliberately sought AI companions."
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On human-AI relationships!!
I recently discovered that there is a subreddit called "My Boyfriend is AI," a community of 27k+ people centered around posts on experiences about human-AI relationships.
🧵 1/n
www.reddit.com/r/MyBoyfrien...
I recently discovered that there is a subreddit called "My Boyfriend is AI," a community of 27k+ people centered around posts on experiences about human-AI relationships.
🧵 1/n
www.reddit.com/r/MyBoyfrien...
MyBoyfriendIsAI
This is a restricted community for people to ask, share, and post experiences about their AI relationships. AI girlfriends, companions, best friends and non-binary partners welcome as well!
Please f...
www.reddit.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:23 AM
On human-AI relationships!!
I recently discovered that there is a subreddit called "My Boyfriend is AI," a community of 27k+ people centered around posts on experiences about human-AI relationships.
🧵 1/n
www.reddit.com/r/MyBoyfrien...
I recently discovered that there is a subreddit called "My Boyfriend is AI," a community of 27k+ people centered around posts on experiences about human-AI relationships.
🧵 1/n
www.reddit.com/r/MyBoyfrien...
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Love to see community action against this AI nonsense! neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/d...
November 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Love to see community action against this AI nonsense! neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/d...
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This is excellent, well worth reading.
Many of the points that we discuss in "Why We Fear AI" make an appearance here, from the drive to make people into machine-legible (the techno-bureaucratization of all life) to the ways in which efficiency gains are used against workers (and patients)
Many of the points that we discuss in "Why We Fear AI" make an appearance here, from the drive to make people into machine-legible (the techno-bureaucratization of all life) to the ways in which efficiency gains are used against workers (and patients)
I have a feature essay for The Guardian today on the mirage of AI medicine, why care cannot be automated, and how overwhelming uptake of AI by American health capitalism threatens to undermine the very possibility of democracy.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
What we lose when we surrender care to algorithms | Eric Reinhart
A dangerous faith in AI is sweeping American healthcare – with consequences for the basis of society itself
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:42 PM
This is excellent, well worth reading.
Many of the points that we discuss in "Why We Fear AI" make an appearance here, from the drive to make people into machine-legible (the techno-bureaucratization of all life) to the ways in which efficiency gains are used against workers (and patients)
Many of the points that we discuss in "Why We Fear AI" make an appearance here, from the drive to make people into machine-legible (the techno-bureaucratization of all life) to the ways in which efficiency gains are used against workers (and patients)
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Fifth, the equivocation of human-human & human-AI relationships; a slip that is so ubiquitous that most seem to ignore it, but it's harmful and even probably illegal or against codes of conduct in many settings that involve professional psychologists. See section 7: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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![These problematic beliefs exist on a spectrum, from the assumption that AI products can help in mental health (e.g. Dehbozorgi et al., 2025; Siddals et al., 2024; Wellcome, 2025) to the
assertion that a chatbot can be a therapist (Kilgore, 2025), which
is a regulated profession (e.g. European Federation of Psychologists’ Associations, 2025) with codes of ethics (e.g. American Psychological Association, 2017; British Psychological Society, 2021).
Proponents of these beliefs use the guise of labour shortages and
the global mental health crisis (Kaplan, 2024), as cover to deskill
(for an alarming case, see Budzyń et al., 2025; also Akingbola et
al., 2024; Lebovitz et al., 2021), contributing to the polycrises the
technology industry and their allies uniquely profit from (McConnell & Jacobs, 2025).
All AI, and indeed any technology in mental or other healthcare settings requires “keeping users safe [and this in turn] requires substantial input from clinicians and careful planning to
reduce risk.” (Abrams, 2025) This is key because it is not possible to keep people safe without a highly qualified human-in-theloop (Amironesei et al., 2021; El-Mhamdi et al., 2022; T. Liu et
al., 2025; Salecha et al., 2024; Sharma et al., 2025; Weidinger et al.,
2022) and even then the risk of deskilling is present (e.g. Budzyń
et al., 2025; recall section 4: Outsourcing Programming to Companies). Relatedly, and taking the example of the therapist-client
relationship, dehumanising parallels encoded in expressions such
as: “the country needs all the quality therapists we can get —
be they human or bot” (Riddle, 2025) cannot become normal
in our scientific discussions. No therapist under proper ethical
functioning would cause their client to be addicted to their therapy (Huntington, 2025) nor would they, as in the Replika example (The Luddite, 2024), introduce a sexual relationship between
them and their client (Pettit, 2024b). Any such suggestions to
use a chatbot as a therapist would go aga…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vsyj5jtayxcq5dw5mtja4xtb/bafkreigr3wk3yvqjp5vxuc3esobfssy64gnx2xhlkxe4ahac27gxlri6p4@jpeg)
October 4, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Fifth, the equivocation of human-human & human-AI relationships; a slip that is so ubiquitous that most seem to ignore it, but it's harmful and even probably illegal or against codes of conduct in many settings that involve professional psychologists. See section 7: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft:
Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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October 4, 2025 at 5:33 AM
New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft:
Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Sichte Bewerbungen (MA Digitale Kommunikation). Liebe Bewerberinnen und Bewerber: Ihr glaubt, dass man es nicht merkt, wenn Ihr Eure Motivationsschreiben von ChatGPT schreiben lasst. Das merkt man aber deutlich. Vor allem, wenn man das 10. liest, das klingt wie die 9 davor.
November 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Sichte Bewerbungen (MA Digitale Kommunikation). Liebe Bewerberinnen und Bewerber: Ihr glaubt, dass man es nicht merkt, wenn Ihr Eure Motivationsschreiben von ChatGPT schreiben lasst. Das merkt man aber deutlich. Vor allem, wenn man das 10. liest, das klingt wie die 9 davor.
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The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative | Euractiv
The court will move its internal work environment to Open Desk, a German-developed open source software
www.euractiv.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:36 PM
The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
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sts researchers: :spend decades tracing the way well-intentioned design choices constrained by culture, capital, and the material environment can have negative outcomes in aggregate:
ai companies: lets put a chatbot in a doll that tells kids to set fires
futurism.com/artificial-i...
ai companies: lets put a chatbot in a doll that tells kids to set fires
futurism.com/artificial-i...
AI-Powered Toys Caught Telling 5-Year-Olds How to Find Knives and Start Fires With Matches
AI-powered toys are flying off the shelves -- but they're engaging in horrifically inappropriate conversations with children.
futurism.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
sts researchers: :spend decades tracing the way well-intentioned design choices constrained by culture, capital, and the material environment can have negative outcomes in aggregate:
ai companies: lets put a chatbot in a doll that tells kids to set fires
futurism.com/artificial-i...
ai companies: lets put a chatbot in a doll that tells kids to set fires
futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Interesting way of throwing your own users under the bus.
“[OpenAI] argued that "outputs" from ChatGPT answering user questions were generated only in response to user prompts and so if anybody were responsible for their generation it would be users more than OpenAI.”
amp.dw.com/en/openai-lo...
“[OpenAI] argued that "outputs" from ChatGPT answering user questions were generated only in response to user prompts and so if anybody were responsible for their generation it would be users more than OpenAI.”
amp.dw.com/en/openai-lo...
OpenAI loses song lyrics copyright case in German court – DW – 11/11/2025
OpenAI lost a copyright infringement case in a lower German court for using popular song lyrics in its ChatGPT language model without paying royalties.
amp.dw.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Interesting way of throwing your own users under the bus.
“[OpenAI] argued that "outputs" from ChatGPT answering user questions were generated only in response to user prompts and so if anybody were responsible for their generation it would be users more than OpenAI.”
amp.dw.com/en/openai-lo...
“[OpenAI] argued that "outputs" from ChatGPT answering user questions were generated only in response to user prompts and so if anybody were responsible for their generation it would be users more than OpenAI.”
amp.dw.com/en/openai-lo...
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I have a feature essay for The Guardian today on the mirage of AI medicine, why care cannot be automated, and how overwhelming uptake of AI by American health capitalism threatens to undermine the very possibility of democracy.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
What we lose when we surrender care to algorithms | Eric Reinhart
A dangerous faith in AI is sweeping American healthcare – with consequences for the basis of society itself
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I have a feature essay for The Guardian today on the mirage of AI medicine, why care cannot be automated, and how overwhelming uptake of AI by American health capitalism threatens to undermine the very possibility of democracy.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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FWIW I wrote this. I wrote it in part as a tool to use in persuasion in my own communities.
www.startribune.com/adam-raine-c...
www.startribune.com/adam-raine-c...
Perry: How can AI be used ethically when it’s been linked to suicide?
"It’s not on us, on you and me, to use AI ethically or responsibly. It’s on the companies to build safe, reliable, ethical products," David M. Perry writes.
www.startribune.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:56 AM
FWIW I wrote this. I wrote it in part as a tool to use in persuasion in my own communities.
www.startribune.com/adam-raine-c...
www.startribune.com/adam-raine-c...
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My favorite comment on the FT story
November 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
My favorite comment on the FT story
Great read!
”Of course, if we compare humans and computers on their ability to compute, then there is no question that computers outperform humans.“ 1/2
aeon.co/essays/are-h...
”Of course, if we compare humans and computers on their ability to compute, then there is no question that computers outperform humans.“ 1/2
aeon.co/essays/are-h...
Are humans really blind to the gorilla on the basketball court? | Aeon Essays
A new interpretation of a classic psychology experiment will change your view of perception, judgment – even human nature
aeon.co
November 2, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Great read!
”Of course, if we compare humans and computers on their ability to compute, then there is no question that computers outperform humans.“ 1/2
aeon.co/essays/are-h...
”Of course, if we compare humans and computers on their ability to compute, then there is no question that computers outperform humans.“ 1/2
aeon.co/essays/are-h...
„On top of this, the researchers identified a reversal of the Dunning-Kruger Effect –– an identifiable tendency for those users who considered themselves more AI literate to assume their abilities were greater than they really were.“
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
AI use makes us overestimate our cognitive performance
A study led by Aalto University reveals that when it comes to AI, specifically, LLMs, the Dunning-Kruger Effect doesn’t hold. All users show a significant inability to assess their performance a...
www.eurekalert.org
November 1, 2025 at 3:14 PM
„On top of this, the researchers identified a reversal of the Dunning-Kruger Effect –– an identifiable tendency for those users who considered themselves more AI literate to assume their abilities were greater than they really were.“
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
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I have logs and IP addresses and can point very specific fingers at bad actors. Will that change anything? No. What I have done is blocked crawlers to stop hemorrhaging bandwidth which means future machines will continue to have a knowledge deficit when it comes to a11y. Is that a win? I’m not sure.
November 1, 2025 at 3:45 AM
I have logs and IP addresses and can point very specific fingers at bad actors. Will that change anything? No. What I have done is blocked crawlers to stop hemorrhaging bandwidth which means future machines will continue to have a knowledge deficit when it comes to a11y. Is that a win? I’m not sure.