Katia Schwerzmann
@katschwerzmann.bsky.social
Philosophy, Technology, and the Body—Toward Justice
www.katiaschwerzmann.net
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New paper with @katschwerzmann.bsky.social in AI & Society. Our basic question is: "Where has the ethical imperative of alignment come from? how, exactly, does it propose to regulate machines’ and peoples’ conduct?" It's quite critical - interested to hear thoughts link.springer.com/article/10.1...
“Desired behaviors”: alignment and the emergence of a machine learning ethics - AI & SOCIETY
The concept of alignment has undergone a remarkable rise in recent years to take center stage in the ethics of artificial intelligence. There are now numerous philosophical studies of the values that ...
link.springer.com
So happy to see this paper cowritten with @alexcampolo.bsky.social finally published!!
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"Additionally, by accepting generative models’ normative rationality, the University reframes learning and research as
essentially consisting in the evaluation of models’ outputs." @katschwerzmann.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2505.03513
essentially consisting in the evaluation of models’ outputs." @katschwerzmann.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2505.03513
Ruled by the Representation Space: On the University's Embrace of Large Language Models
This paper explores the implications of universities' rapid adoption of large language models (LLMs) for studying, teaching, and research by analyzing the logics underpinning their representation spac...
arxiv.org
November 4, 2025 at 5:25 PM
"Additionally, by accepting generative models’ normative rationality, the University reframes learning and research as
essentially consisting in the evaluation of models’ outputs." @katschwerzmann.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2505.03513
essentially consisting in the evaluation of models’ outputs." @katschwerzmann.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2505.03513
Liebe Lehrende an deutschen Hochschulen, bitte erwägen Sie, diesen Open Letter gegen die unkritische Anwendung von KI im Hochschulkontext zu unterzeichnen. openletter.earth/gegen-die-un...
Gegen die unkritische Anwendung und Implementierung sog. Künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) in der deutschen Wissenschaft und im Hochschulalltag
openletter.earth
November 24, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Liebe Lehrende an deutschen Hochschulen, bitte erwägen Sie, diesen Open Letter gegen die unkritische Anwendung von KI im Hochschulkontext zu unterzeichnen. openletter.earth/gegen-die-un...
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#KWIBlog: In today's blog text, former Thyssen Fellow @katschwerzmann.bsky.social investigates the role of reading in the context of new developments in AI, stressing the need for ongoing investment in close and critical reading that considers AI practices and limitations.
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May 26, 2025 at 7:42 AM
#KWIBlog: In today's blog text, former Thyssen Fellow @katschwerzmann.bsky.social investigates the role of reading in the context of new developments in AI, stressing the need for ongoing investment in close and critical reading that considers AI practices and limitations.
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A social sciences and humanities reading list on AI in education 🧵
February 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM
A social sciences and humanities reading list on AI in education 🧵
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Very timely and necessary critical intervention by @katschwerzmann.bsky.social – highly recommended: «By embracing LLMs before developing any critical framework for their use in pedagogical and research contexts, the University allows itself to be governed by the contingent, ever-evolving ...
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Ruled by the Representation Space: On the University’s Embrace of Large Language Models
arxiv.org
May 19, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Very timely and necessary critical intervention by @katschwerzmann.bsky.social – highly recommended: «By embracing LLMs before developing any critical framework for their use in pedagogical and research contexts, the University allows itself to be governed by the contingent, ever-evolving ...
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Totally vague PR blog post as we now expect from OpenAI - remember when they used to publish research? But I am nonetheless interested in the conceptualization of ML "pathologies" - will have to think further about "sycophancy" as political problem... openai.com/index/sycoph...
Sycophancy in GPT-4o: What happened and what we’re doing about it
We have rolled back last week’s GPT‑4o update in ChatGPT so people are now using an earlier version with more balanced behavior. The update we removed was overly flattering or agreeable—often describe...
openai.com
April 30, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Totally vague PR blog post as we now expect from OpenAI - remember when they used to publish research? But I am nonetheless interested in the conceptualization of ML "pathologies" - will have to think further about "sycophancy" as political problem... openai.com/index/sycoph...
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Fabulous paper from @alexcampolo.bsky.social and @katschwerzmann.bsky.social mapping an anatomy of the concept of #alignment in #machinelearning #algorithmicsocieties link.springer.com/article/10.1...
“Desired behaviors”: alignment and the emergence of a machine learning ethics - AI & SOCIETY
The concept of alignment has undergone a remarkable rise in recent years to take center stage in the ethics of artificial intelligence. There are now numerous philosophical studies of the values that ...
link.springer.com
March 21, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Fabulous paper from @alexcampolo.bsky.social and @katschwerzmann.bsky.social mapping an anatomy of the concept of #alignment in #machinelearning #algorithmicsocieties link.springer.com/article/10.1...
So happy to see this paper cowritten with @alexcampolo.bsky.social finally published!!
New paper with @katschwerzmann.bsky.social in AI & Society. Our basic question is: "Where has the ethical imperative of alignment come from? how, exactly, does it propose to regulate machines’ and peoples’ conduct?" It's quite critical - interested to hear thoughts link.springer.com/article/10.1...
“Desired behaviors”: alignment and the emergence of a machine learning ethics - AI & SOCIETY
The concept of alignment has undergone a remarkable rise in recent years to take center stage in the ethics of artificial intelligence. There are now numerous philosophical studies of the values that ...
link.springer.com
March 21, 2025 at 10:59 AM
So happy to see this paper cowritten with @alexcampolo.bsky.social finally published!!
Reposted by Katia Schwerzmann
Reposted by Katia Schwerzmann
Really looking forward to the "New Reading Scenes" workshop later this week, organized by @katschwerzmann.bsky.social at @kwi-essen.bsky.social & @sfb1567.bsky.social. Remote registration is available: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
February 24, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Really looking forward to the "New Reading Scenes" workshop later this week, organized by @katschwerzmann.bsky.social at @kwi-essen.bsky.social & @sfb1567.bsky.social. Remote registration is available: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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The workshop is organized by our Thyssen@KWI Fellow
@katschwerzmann.bsky.social
with talks by @floriansprenger.bsky.social | @alexcampolo.bsky.social |
@rainermuehlhoff.bsky.social | @moritzhiller.bsky.social
Further Information here: www.kulturwissenschaften.de/veranstaltun...
@katschwerzmann.bsky.social
with talks by @floriansprenger.bsky.social | @alexcampolo.bsky.social |
@rainermuehlhoff.bsky.social | @moritzhiller.bsky.social
Further Information here: www.kulturwissenschaften.de/veranstaltun...
Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI)
Das Kulturwissenschaftliche Institut Essen (KWI) ist ein interdisziplinäres Forschungskolleg für Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften in der Tradition internationaler Institutes for Advanced Study. Als i...
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February 12, 2025 at 11:30 AM
The workshop is organized by our Thyssen@KWI Fellow
@katschwerzmann.bsky.social
with talks by @floriansprenger.bsky.social | @alexcampolo.bsky.social |
@rainermuehlhoff.bsky.social | @moritzhiller.bsky.social
Further Information here: www.kulturwissenschaften.de/veranstaltun...
@katschwerzmann.bsky.social
with talks by @floriansprenger.bsky.social | @alexcampolo.bsky.social |
@rainermuehlhoff.bsky.social | @moritzhiller.bsky.social
Further Information here: www.kulturwissenschaften.de/veranstaltun...
Wichtige Stellungnahme bezüglich der aktuellen politischen Angriffe gegen die Freiheit von Forschung und Lehre:
www.fg-gender.de/angriffen-au...
www.fg-gender.de/angriffen-au...
Angriffen auf die Freiheit von Forschung und Lehre entschlossen entgegentreten! | Fachgesellschaft Geschlechterstudien // Gender Studies Association
www.fg-gender.de
February 11, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Wichtige Stellungnahme bezüglich der aktuellen politischen Angriffe gegen die Freiheit von Forschung und Lehre:
www.fg-gender.de/angriffen-au...
www.fg-gender.de/angriffen-au...
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Not to put too fine a point on it, but a week ago, the CSU closed 6 departments (among them, philosophy, women's and gender studies, and economics) and fired 46 tenure-line faculty at Sonoma State. One of those faculty studies AI ethics.
They fired the AI ethics professor. Then, this.
They fired the AI ethics professor. Then, this.
“The rollout will cover 23 campuses of the largest public university system in the United States, enabling students to access personalized tutoring and study guides through the chatbot, while the faculty will be able to use it for administrative tasks.”
OpenAI targets higher education in the U.S. with ChatGPT rollout at California State University
Microsoft -backed OpenAI said on Tuesday it will roll out an education-specific version of its chatbot to about 500,000 students and faculty at California State University as it looks to expand its user base in the academic sector and counter competition from rivals like Alphabet .
www.reuters.com
February 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Not to put too fine a point on it, but a week ago, the CSU closed 6 departments (among them, philosophy, women's and gender studies, and economics) and fired 46 tenure-line faculty at Sonoma State. One of those faculty studies AI ethics.
They fired the AI ethics professor. Then, this.
They fired the AI ethics professor. Then, this.
Reading DeepSeek's paper: "DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning," I find the paper somewhat misleading. DeepSeek's claim is that its model obtains excellent reasoning abilities by applying "pure reinforcement learning" onto the pre-trained model.
February 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Reading DeepSeek's paper: "DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning," I find the paper somewhat misleading. DeepSeek's claim is that its model obtains excellent reasoning abilities by applying "pure reinforcement learning" onto the pre-trained model.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a... I can’t recommend this podcast enough. This episode examines how autocracy is established by reinterpreting existing laws and discusses the function of systematic “performative cruelty” toward minorities.
Trump’s American Takeover
Podcast Episode · Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts · 02/01/2025 · 53m
podcasts.apple.com
February 3, 2025 at 12:45 PM
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a... I can’t recommend this podcast enough. This episode examines how autocracy is established by reinterpreting existing laws and discusses the function of systematic “performative cruelty” toward minorities.
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Workers in DC are fighting to block Musk's minions.
"About 100 Federal employees and supporters...blocked the doors to...‘data miners’....The small group of young men eventually left without entering after the protesters would not let them near the front doors." dcmediagroup.us/2025/02/02/f...
"About 100 Federal employees and supporters...blocked the doors to...‘data miners’....The small group of young men eventually left without entering after the protesters would not let them near the front doors." dcmediagroup.us/2025/02/02/f...
Federal Workers Block Doors of Admin Building Over Elon Musk Data Breach - DCMediaGroup
Nearly 100 Federal employees took part in a protest now into its second day of a takeover by Elon Musk surrogates of the high administration arm of the Federal government. Photo: DCMediaGroup Washingt...
dcmediagroup.us
February 3, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Workers in DC are fighting to block Musk's minions.
"About 100 Federal employees and supporters...blocked the doors to...‘data miners’....The small group of young men eventually left without entering after the protesters would not let them near the front doors." dcmediagroup.us/2025/02/02/f...
"About 100 Federal employees and supporters...blocked the doors to...‘data miners’....The small group of young men eventually left without entering after the protesters would not let them near the front doors." dcmediagroup.us/2025/02/02/f...
Link to the description and schedule: static1.squarespace.com/static/602b9.... To register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
February 3, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Link to the description and schedule: static1.squarespace.com/static/602b9.... To register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
“‘It feels like a hostile takeover,’ the employee said.” In politics, isn’t that called a coup?
“‘It feels like a hostile takeover,’ the employee said.” In politics, isn’t that called a coup?
reuters.com
www.reuters.com
February 1, 2025 at 12:21 PM
www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
“‘It feels like a hostile takeover,’ the employee said.” In politics, isn’t that called a coup?
“‘It feels like a hostile takeover,’ the employee said.” In politics, isn’t that called a coup?
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... And speaking about scraping, don't forget to turn off "connected experience," which is on by default in all MS Office products.
AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt
Attackers explain how an anti-spam defense became an AI weapon.
arstechnica.com
January 30, 2025 at 7:49 AM
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... And speaking about scraping, don't forget to turn off "connected experience," which is on by default in all MS Office products.
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📅 This week's #colloquium will be held by Thyssen@KWI fellow @katschwerzmann.bsky.social. She’ll explore how machine-learning-based AI, especially generative ones, create new forms of authority and ethics: www.kulturwissenschaften.de/veranstaltun...
January 20, 2025 at 10:54 AM
📅 This week's #colloquium will be held by Thyssen@KWI fellow @katschwerzmann.bsky.social. She’ll explore how machine-learning-based AI, especially generative ones, create new forms of authority and ethics: www.kulturwissenschaften.de/veranstaltun...
Workshop open to the public. Zoom Link will be posted. To attend in person, please contact me. Confirmed speakers: Kate Hayles, @floriansprenger.bsky.social, @alexcampolo.bsky.social, @moritzhiller.bsky.social, Deanna Cachoian-Schanz, Alex Bostroff, Christoph Engemann, @rainermuehlhoff.bsky.social
I am excited to organize a hybrid workshop at KWI, Essen, Germany (February 27–28, 2025) called “New Reading Scenes: On Machine Reading and Reading Machine Learning Research”. (Program will follow.) www.kulturwissenschaften.de/veranstaltun...
Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI)
Das Kulturwissenschaftliche Institut Essen (KWI) ist ein interdisziplinäres Forschungskolleg für Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften in der Tradition internationaler Institutes for Advanced Study. Als i...
www.kulturwissenschaften.de
January 12, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Workshop open to the public. Zoom Link will be posted. To attend in person, please contact me. Confirmed speakers: Kate Hayles, @floriansprenger.bsky.social, @alexcampolo.bsky.social, @moritzhiller.bsky.social, Deanna Cachoian-Schanz, Alex Bostroff, Christoph Engemann, @rainermuehlhoff.bsky.social
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I hope people may find some forthcoming critical work with @katschwerzmann.bsky.social on alignment useful.... Here is a short preview.
December 11, 2024 at 9:18 AM
I hope people may find some forthcoming critical work with @katschwerzmann.bsky.social on alignment useful.... Here is a short preview.
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These aren’t exactly surprising choices but I do think our group’s recent “A World Model” paper helps contextualize and theorize them - we (@amoorelouise.bsky.social, @ludovico-rella.bsky.social, Ben Jacobsen) address both pretty explicitly: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 28, 2024 at 9:48 AM
These aren’t exactly surprising choices but I do think our group’s recent “A World Model” paper helps contextualize and theorize them - we (@amoorelouise.bsky.social, @ludovico-rella.bsky.social, Ben Jacobsen) address both pretty explicitly: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...