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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · Sep 16

Recently I gave a keynote on "AI: what happens when we let machines speak for us - and about us?" at the FIT World Congress. In it I argued that automating translation means treating language as a matter of pure perception or prediction, at the expense of judgment.
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#translation #ai #machinetranslation #techethics #languagematters #fitcongress2025 | Dr. Dorothea Baur

After Duolingo's AI translation turned camembert into a pie chart in Part 1 of my reflections from the FIT Congress , it’s time to zoom out a little. Here’s Part 2: What exactly are we automating w...

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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · Sep 10

"The surge in same-same AI-authored applications prompts employers to use robot filters to manage the flow. Everyone ends up in Tinderized job-search hell"
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The Job Market Is Hell

Young people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired.

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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · Jul 8

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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · Jul 8

Kudos to the Oxford Dictionary of English for reading AI
1. as Amnesty International
2. as artificial insemination,
3. and only then as ... AI.

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(picture from Shannon Vallor's great book "AI Mirror - @shannonvallor.bsky.social 🙏)

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Tien @wtftien.bsky.social · Jul 3

"And attribution – or any other kind of recognition – is not just missing, it is actively prevented.

Democratization would mean participation, visibility, and credit. What we are seeing here is something else entirely." 2/2

From @dorotheabaur.bsky.social

The Myth of AI Democratization - baur consulting

AI companies create groundbreaking innovation. But when it comes to business ethics, they seem pretty ignorant. What are they missing?

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Tien @wtftien.bsky.social · Jul 3

On the Myth of AI Democratization

"This is not Robin Hood. It’s reverse Robin Hood. Value is extracted from underpaid authors, artists, and researchers in order to fuel systems that are controlled and monetized by some of the wealthiest and most powerful companies on the planet." 1/2

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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · Jul 4

Oh, thank you!

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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · Jul 3

Newsletter. Heute dabei:
- Warum KI-Unternehmen von Demokratie reden und Oligarchie meinen
- Wie Sam Altman unlautere Forschung als Anlass nimmt, um seinen Iris-Scanner und eine Kryptowährung zu pitchen
- Wie weiter nach dem Ende des Nachhaltigkeitshypes
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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · Jul 1

Talking about Nick Clegg apparently turns me into a kind of middle-aged Greta Thunberg: "How dare you?" But I stand by it: his justification for the genAI industry's predatory business model is the bottom of the barrel. #AI #genAI #copyright
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Nick Clegg's Shocking AI Bankruptcy Claim: Meta's Secret Exposed!

YouTube video by The AI impact podcast

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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · Jun 30

My office for the next few weeks.

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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · Jun 23

"most likely"... that's most likely an understatement ;)

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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · Jun 23

In the aftermath of the undercover study in which researchers from Zurich Uni tried to manipulate users, Reddit is considering using Sam Altman's Orb (an iris-scanning biometric surveillance tool linked to his cryptocurrency WorldCoin) in order to identify users.
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A secret AI study. A biometric orb. A new internet ID. - baur consulting

AI companies create groundbreaking innovation. But when it comes to business ethics, they seem pretty ignorant. What are they missing?

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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · Jun 21

Hach, danke. 😅 Wahrscheinlich lebt Baur sogar umso mehr, je weniger man hier von Baur sieht...

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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · Jun 21

Tech "built on top of the mess of society doesn’t just replicate its mistakes but reinforces them, because users think 'this ... can see everything" "therefore it has this view from nowhere'". But "there is no view from nowhere". @emilymbender.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/9029...

AI sceptic Emily Bender: ‘The emperor has no clothes’

The computational linguist on her motivations for taking on Big Tech, the dangers of chatbots — and why AI is just a ‘glorified Magic 8 Ball’

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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · Jun 10

If a billion-dollar AI system can't "solve a problem that Herb Simon (one of the… godfathers of AI) solved with classical... AI techniques in 1957, the chances that models such as Claude or o3 are going to reach [AGI] seem truly remote" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... @garymarcus.bsky.social

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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · Jun 9

"AI’s use by high-school and college students to complete written assignments, to ease or avoid the work of reading and writing... puts the process of deskilling at education’s core. To automate learning is to subvert learning" www.newcartographies.com/p/the-myth-o...

The Myth of Automated Learning

AI's real threat to education.

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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · May 29

TESCREAL people try "to fill the hole in their souls with integrated circuits and computational power instead of love and collaboration. They refuse to accept that we are not whole not because we are faulty, but because we are meant to work together" husseinhallak.substack.com/p/silicon-va...

Silicon Valley's Most Dangerous Cult

While you argue about politics, the world's most dangerous ideology has already won.

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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · May 29

Crypto sucks. Biometric data collection sucks. Combining the two? Full dystopia. How dare you extract my iris as proof of my humanity – just to force me into your shitcoin system? This isn’t innovation. It’s exploitation.
#WorldCoin #Sama #TheOrb
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The Orb Will See You Now

An audacious startup co-founded by Sam Altman wants to prove you’re human. What else does it want?

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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · May 27

I have finally revised my speaking website 😅

The rest is still work in progress, but at least this part is 99% done (bugs in mobile view will be fixed by my webmaster).

Have a look here: www.baurconsulting.ch/en/speaking

Speaking - baur consulting

Keynotes and workshops on ethics in AI, sustainability – and beyond. Delivered with clarity, insight, and a sense of ease.

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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · May 20

"On average, employees saved 3% of their time, while just 3%-7% of their productivity gains came back to them in the form of higher pay". Did anyone really ever think that AI-based productivity gains would be passed on to workers in the form of higher pay? Not me. 😳 fortune.com/2025/05/18/a...

Study looking at AI chatbots in 7,000 workplaces finds 'no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation'

Despite AI’s promise to revolutionize white-collar work, most workers are using it sparingly—or hiding it from their boss.

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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · May 15

Bisher beeinflusste die Anzahl Frauen in Führungsposition die Boni bei SAP. Neu ist es der "Business Health Culture Index", d.h. der allgemeine Gesundheitszustand der Belegschaft.
Super. Wenn kranke Angestellte den Bonus ruinieren, feuert man sie doch am besten gleich. www.zeit.de/2025/20/sap-...

SAP: Jawohl, Herr Präsident, Frauen brauchen wir nicht!

Donald Trump hat jetzt auch Einfluss auf Entscheidungen in Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg. Hier, in der Firmenzentrale von SAP, ändert man plötzlich die Unternehmenspolitik.

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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · May 14

Ich meinte natürlich "selbst dann nicht"... aber ich hoffe, das ist klar.

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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · May 14

Die NZZ schreibt sinngemäss, dass die Nationalbank prinzipiell keine Erdölaktien verkaufen sollte. Selbst dann, wenn sie es aus wirtschaftlichen Gründen tut? Einfach deswegen nicht, weil sie damit Klimaaktivisten ermutigen könnte 😂 Realsatire! www.nzz.ch/meinung/die-...

SNB und Klimapolitik: Warum der Verkauf von Chevron-Aktien kein Kurswechsel ist

Der Ausstieg der SNB aus Chevron-Aktien mag Klimaaktivisten freuen – doch er ist kein Präzedenzfall für eine neue Anlagepolitik. Die Nationalbank muss sich vor einer Politisierung ihrer Bilanz hüten.

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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · May 12

Gloomy insights into the mind of AI investors: "the money you can make in AI isn’t limited to the paltry market sizes of previous [tech] waves. You can replace the world’s workers - which means you can capture their salaries. All of them" @ednewtonrex.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

For Silicon Valley, AI isn’t just about replacing some jobs. It’s about replacing all of them | Ed Newton-Rex

AI will do the thinking, robots will do the doing. What place do humans have in this arrangement – and do tech CEOs care? says Ed Newton-Rex, founder of Fairly Trained

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Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · May 7

Not sure what's worse: the sister presenting the AI of her dead brother in court o the judge's reaction to it: “I loved that AI... As angry as you are, as justifiably angry as the family is, I heard the forgiveness... I feel that that was genuine” (sic!) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

AI of dead Arizona road rage victim addresses killer in court

Clip of Chris Pelkey, who died in 2021, says: ‘I believe in forgiveness’ after his sister fed an AI model videos of him

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