Dieuwertje Luitse
@dluitse.bsky.social
PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam on Data Bodies, Critical AI in Health Decision-making | Ethics & Politics of AI systems, Platforms, Political Economy | she/her | 🔗 https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/l/u/d.luitse/d.luitse.html
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@dluitse.bsky.social
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🚨The Critical AI Seminar Series returns in 2025/2026 ✨
This year we will have four talks and are beyond excited to welcome @amoorelouise.bsky.social & @alexcampolo.bsky.social, Fabian Offert, Helene Ratner & @nannathylstrup.bsky.social and @thaophan.bsky.social ✨
Sign up: bit.ly/uvacriticala...
This year we will have four talks and are beyond excited to welcome @amoorelouise.bsky.social & @alexcampolo.bsky.social, Fabian Offert, Helene Ratner & @nannathylstrup.bsky.social and @thaophan.bsky.social ✨
Sign up: bit.ly/uvacriticala...
CfP ✨Consider submitting to this fantastic panel on Deep Learning and Culture at the STS NL Conference ✨
Organised by @louravn.bsky.social @annaschjoett.bsky.social Dasha Simons, Paula Helm and Tobias Blanke (@d-eepculture.bsky.social)
Organised by @louravn.bsky.social @annaschjoett.bsky.social Dasha Simons, Paula Helm and Tobias Blanke (@d-eepculture.bsky.social)
🚨 Call for presentations: “Deep Learning and Culture” panel
🔍 We're organizing a panel on “Deep Learning and Culture” at the STS NL Conference (Uni of Twente, 17-19 April 2026).
📮 Please submit your abstract here: www.utwente.nl/en/bms/sts-n.... Deadline: 07 Jan. 2026.
See you there :)
🔍 We're organizing a panel on “Deep Learning and Culture” at the STS NL Conference (Uni of Twente, 17-19 April 2026).
📮 Please submit your abstract here: www.utwente.nl/en/bms/sts-n.... Deadline: 07 Jan. 2026.
See you there :)
December 15, 2025 at 1:19 PM
CfP ✨Consider submitting to this fantastic panel on Deep Learning and Culture at the STS NL Conference ✨
Organised by @louravn.bsky.social @annaschjoett.bsky.social Dasha Simons, Paula Helm and Tobias Blanke (@d-eepculture.bsky.social)
Organised by @louravn.bsky.social @annaschjoett.bsky.social Dasha Simons, Paula Helm and Tobias Blanke (@d-eepculture.bsky.social)
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🇬🇧 New RESET call for papers on "Towards New Social and Historical Studies of Artificial Intelligence"!
A special issue edited by @vgoujon.bsky.social, Mathilde Fichen and @alexcampolo.bsky.social
One-page abstracts are due by January 16, 2026: journals.openedition.org/reset/6250
A special issue edited by @vgoujon.bsky.social, Mathilde Fichen and @alexcampolo.bsky.social
One-page abstracts are due by January 16, 2026: journals.openedition.org/reset/6250
Call for Papers n° 19 : Towards New Social and Historical Studies o...
Abstracts are due by January 16, 2026. Today public opinion on generative artificial intelligence is deeply divided. Techno-optimistic promises clash with ethical critiques, against the backdrop of...
journals.openedition.org
December 10, 2025 at 12:51 PM
🇬🇧 New RESET call for papers on "Towards New Social and Historical Studies of Artificial Intelligence"!
A special issue edited by @vgoujon.bsky.social, Mathilde Fichen and @alexcampolo.bsky.social
One-page abstracts are due by January 16, 2026: journals.openedition.org/reset/6250
A special issue edited by @vgoujon.bsky.social, Mathilde Fichen and @alexcampolo.bsky.social
One-page abstracts are due by January 16, 2026: journals.openedition.org/reset/6250
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I have a new paper out in @jhokjournal.bsky.social - "Loss: A notion of error in machine learning." It attempts to draw some wider historical comparisons than are perhaps usual. I would love to know what you think. journalhistoryknowledge.org/article/view...
December 11, 2025 at 10:08 AM
I have a new paper out in @jhokjournal.bsky.social - "Loss: A notion of error in machine learning." It attempts to draw some wider historical comparisons than are perhaps usual. I would love to know what you think. journalhistoryknowledge.org/article/view...
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❗ We are urgently looking for a new Lecturer in Cultural Data & AI at the University of Amsterdam: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
The deadline for applying is very soon: Jan 4th.
You’ll work with @tpoell.bsky.social, @riederb.bsky.social, @dluitse.bsky.social, @louravn.bsky.social, me, & more
The deadline for applying is very soon: Jan 4th.
You’ll work with @tpoell.bsky.social, @riederb.bsky.social, @dluitse.bsky.social, @louravn.bsky.social, me, & more
Vacancy — Lecturer in Cultural Data & AI (D4)
<p>Would you like to teach cutting-edge theories, computational methods, and questions in Critical Data & AI? Then we have the perfect challenge for you!</p>
werkenbij.uva.nl
December 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
❗ We are urgently looking for a new Lecturer in Cultural Data & AI at the University of Amsterdam: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
The deadline for applying is very soon: Jan 4th.
You’ll work with @tpoell.bsky.social, @riederb.bsky.social, @dluitse.bsky.social, @louravn.bsky.social, me, & more
The deadline for applying is very soon: Jan 4th.
You’ll work with @tpoell.bsky.social, @riederb.bsky.social, @dluitse.bsky.social, @louravn.bsky.social, me, & more
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We are excited to report that we have started developing our first *Little Tools of Difference*.
While deep learning has been driven by a culture of uniformity, we asked: What if we used these same state-of-the-art architectures to do the opposite?
More prototypes are coming soon, so stay tuned!
While deep learning has been driven by a culture of uniformity, we asked: What if we used these same state-of-the-art architectures to do the opposite?
More prototypes are coming soon, so stay tuned!
December 10, 2025 at 9:53 AM
We are excited to report that we have started developing our first *Little Tools of Difference*.
While deep learning has been driven by a culture of uniformity, we asked: What if we used these same state-of-the-art architectures to do the opposite?
More prototypes are coming soon, so stay tuned!
While deep learning has been driven by a culture of uniformity, we asked: What if we used these same state-of-the-art architectures to do the opposite?
More prototypes are coming soon, so stay tuned!
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Excited to announce @leverhulmecal.bsky.social posts - we are looking for 7 interdisciplinary fellows to join our Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life, closing date 30 January 2026 (1/3) durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life Fellows - Assistant Professor (Research) G7 - G8
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
durham.taleo.net
December 2, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Excited to announce @leverhulmecal.bsky.social posts - we are looking for 7 interdisciplinary fellows to join our Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life, closing date 30 January 2026 (1/3) durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
🚨On November 12, we are delighted to welcome @amoorelouise.bsky.social and @alexcampolo.bsky.social as the opening speakers of the 2025/2026 Critical AI Seminar Series (online)✨
🗓️ November 12, 2025 from 5:00-6:30 PM (CEST) on Zoom
✨Register via: www.create.humanities.uva.nl/events/1-cri...
🗓️ November 12, 2025 from 5:00-6:30 PM (CEST) on Zoom
✨Register via: www.create.humanities.uva.nl/events/1-cri...
#1 Critical AI Seminar Series: On reading machine learning
November 12, 17-18:30 (CEST): On reading machine learning One of the strengths of Critical AI studies has been a rapid development of methods for addressing the different social and political objects ...
www.create.humanities.uva.nl
November 5, 2025 at 2:51 PM
🚨On November 12, we are delighted to welcome @amoorelouise.bsky.social and @alexcampolo.bsky.social as the opening speakers of the 2025/2026 Critical AI Seminar Series (online)✨
🗓️ November 12, 2025 from 5:00-6:30 PM (CEST) on Zoom
✨Register via: www.create.humanities.uva.nl/events/1-cri...
🗓️ November 12, 2025 from 5:00-6:30 PM (CEST) on Zoom
✨Register via: www.create.humanities.uva.nl/events/1-cri...
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With @best.wel.moe and @nieuwsuur.nl, we studied Google's AI Overviews for political searches in the NL. We found that larger parties often benefit and that Google changed its use of AI Overviews *three times* during the run-up to the Dutch elections.
Read the article here: nos.nl/nieuwsuur/ar...
Read the article here: nos.nl/nieuwsuur/ar...
Google zet gekleurde AI-antwoorden midden in campagnetijd aan, uit, en weer aan
GroenLinks-PvdA, D66 en de VVD worden in de antwoorden op algemene politieke vragen het vaakst genoemd. Kleinere partijen komen veel minder vaak aan bod.
nos.nl
October 25, 2025 at 1:18 PM
With @best.wel.moe and @nieuwsuur.nl, we studied Google's AI Overviews for political searches in the NL. We found that larger parties often benefit and that Google changed its use of AI Overviews *three times* during the run-up to the Dutch elections.
Read the article here: nos.nl/nieuwsuur/ar...
Read the article here: nos.nl/nieuwsuur/ar...
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Our article on the politics of AI prompts is out now @econsocjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/n
Politics of the prompt: Government in the age of generative AI
This paper addresses the politics of the technique of prompting in machine learning, at a time when bureaucratic and democratic government is undergoing transformation. Drawing on the case of the U...
www.tandfonline.com
October 7, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Our article on the politics of AI prompts is out now @econsocjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/n
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✨excited to start my UKRI AI Metascience fellowship, where I’ll examine how AI-generated synthetic data is (re)shaping medical research cultures and knowledge practices. Super happy to be staying at Durham University with @amoorelouise.bsky.social as my mentor!
www.ukri.org/news/interna...
www.ukri.org/news/interna...
International fellowships to explore AI’s impact on science
New £4 million programme funds early career researchers in the UK, US and Canada to investigate how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming science.
www.ukri.org
October 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
✨excited to start my UKRI AI Metascience fellowship, where I’ll examine how AI-generated synthetic data is (re)shaping medical research cultures and knowledge practices. Super happy to be staying at Durham University with @amoorelouise.bsky.social as my mentor!
www.ukri.org/news/interna...
www.ukri.org/news/interna...
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Super fun to contribute to this brief interview with Terminally Online, a student-led organization on New Media at the University of Amsterdam.
We spoke about my wonderful team‘s research (@d-eepculture.bsky.social), who inspires me, and some of my own work.
🔗: www.linkedin.com/pulse/interv...
We spoke about my wonderful team‘s research (@d-eepculture.bsky.social), who inspires me, and some of my own work.
🔗: www.linkedin.com/pulse/interv...
Interview with Louis Ravn
Louis Ravn is a PhD Candidate on Deep Culture at the University of Amsterdam, working in the fields of science and technology studies and critical data/AI studies. Moreover, he is assistant editor for...
www.linkedin.com
October 9, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Super fun to contribute to this brief interview with Terminally Online, a student-led organization on New Media at the University of Amsterdam.
We spoke about my wonderful team‘s research (@d-eepculture.bsky.social), who inspires me, and some of my own work.
🔗: www.linkedin.com/pulse/interv...
We spoke about my wonderful team‘s research (@d-eepculture.bsky.social), who inspires me, and some of my own work.
🔗: www.linkedin.com/pulse/interv...
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🚨The Critical AI Seminar Series returns in 2025/2026 ✨
This year we will have four talks and are beyond excited to welcome @amoorelouise.bsky.social & @alexcampolo.bsky.social, Fabian Offert, Helene Ratner & @nannathylstrup.bsky.social and @thaophan.bsky.social ✨
Sign up: bit.ly/uvacriticala...
This year we will have four talks and are beyond excited to welcome @amoorelouise.bsky.social & @alexcampolo.bsky.social, Fabian Offert, Helene Ratner & @nannathylstrup.bsky.social and @thaophan.bsky.social ✨
Sign up: bit.ly/uvacriticala...
September 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
🚨The Critical AI Seminar Series returns in 2025/2026 ✨
This year we will have four talks and are beyond excited to welcome @amoorelouise.bsky.social & @alexcampolo.bsky.social, Fabian Offert, Helene Ratner & @nannathylstrup.bsky.social and @thaophan.bsky.social ✨
Sign up: bit.ly/uvacriticala...
This year we will have four talks and are beyond excited to welcome @amoorelouise.bsky.social & @alexcampolo.bsky.social, Fabian Offert, Helene Ratner & @nannathylstrup.bsky.social and @thaophan.bsky.social ✨
Sign up: bit.ly/uvacriticala...
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I am very excited and honoured to be the recipient of an ERC Starting Grant, starting January 2026 🔆 @erc.europa.eu. The five-year project will explore the broader social, political, and ethical implications of training algorithmic models on synthetic data. www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
New project to investigate societal consequences of using synthetic data to train algorithms
Researchers in the University of York’s Department of Sociology will lead one of the first large-scale, systematic social science studies of synthetic data.
www.york.ac.uk
September 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I am very excited and honoured to be the recipient of an ERC Starting Grant, starting January 2026 🔆 @erc.europa.eu. The five-year project will explore the broader social, political, and ethical implications of training algorithmic models on synthetic data. www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
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I'm excited to share the final cover for Silicon Empires and very grateful for the kind words that others have offered. Pre-order here: www.amazon.co.uk/Silicon-Empi...
September 9, 2025 at 8:54 AM
I'm excited to share the final cover for Silicon Empires and very grateful for the kind words that others have offered. Pre-order here: www.amazon.co.uk/Silicon-Empi...
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I have a new article out: "Do artifacts have political economy?" It's a riff on an old argument by Langdon Winner about the embedding of politics in technology
#STS #sociology #technoscience #technology #innovation
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#STS #sociology #technoscience #technology #innovation
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Do Artifacts Have Political Economy? - Kean Birch, 2025
Harking back to Langdon Winner's now classic essay “Do artifacts have politics?,” my aim in this article is to ask a very similar question—namely, do artif...
journals.sagepub.com
August 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I have a new article out: "Do artifacts have political economy?" It's a riff on an old argument by Langdon Winner about the embedding of politics in technology
#STS #sociology #technoscience #technology #innovation
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#STS #sociology #technoscience #technology #innovation
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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📣 New article out 📣 in the journal Digital Society, where I reflect on the relevance, limitation, and future challenges of studying algorithms through the lens of their referential 'ground truth' datasets
Available here: doi.org/10.1007/s442...
Available here: doi.org/10.1007/s442...
July 15, 2025 at 8:12 AM
📣 New article out 📣 in the journal Digital Society, where I reflect on the relevance, limitation, and future challenges of studying algorithms through the lens of their referential 'ground truth' datasets
Available here: doi.org/10.1007/s442...
Available here: doi.org/10.1007/s442...
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🎉 A lovely wedding present from Big Data & Society! I bring together an ethnographic study of AI practitioners with Simone de Beauvoir’s ethics of ambiguity, exploring how ambiguity shapes AI practice and ethics
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Artificial Intelligence and the ethics of navigating ambiguity - SJ Bennett, 2025
This paper examines ambiguity within AI practice, arguing for an ethics of AI which stays with fundamental ambiguities and accounts for their complex socio-mate...
journals.sagepub.com
June 30, 2025 at 11:40 AM
🎉 A lovely wedding present from Big Data & Society! I bring together an ethnographic study of AI practitioners with Simone de Beauvoir’s ethics of ambiguity, exploring how ambiguity shapes AI practice and ethics
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
⚡Very happy to see another exciting publication out in our Topical Collection of "The Politics of ML Evaluation" in Digital Society!
June 11, 2025 at 9:43 AM
⚡Very happy to see another exciting publication out in our Topical Collection of "The Politics of ML Evaluation" in Digital Society!
✨ 🎉 I am very grateful and honored to be the recipient of the 2025 Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis Article Award @uvahumanities.bsky.social for my paper "Platform power in AI: The evolution of cloud infrastructures in the political economy of artificial intelligence" (tinyurl.com/ythnj7kf)
June 4, 2025 at 3:35 PM
✨ 🎉 I am very grateful and honored to be the recipient of the 2025 Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis Article Award @uvahumanities.bsky.social for my paper "Platform power in AI: The evolution of cloud infrastructures in the political economy of artificial intelligence" (tinyurl.com/ythnj7kf)
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Then off to #RESAW25, presenting on the evolving audience data economy w/ @silvertje.bsky.social (Thu), platform histories panel (Fri) w/ @devikanarayan.bsky.social, @bumatic.bsky.social, & on technography for critical AI studies w/ @dluitse.bsky.social. 🔗 www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/datafiedweb/...
Program – The Datafied Web
www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de
June 2, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Then off to #RESAW25, presenting on the evolving audience data economy w/ @silvertje.bsky.social (Thu), platform histories panel (Fri) w/ @devikanarayan.bsky.social, @bumatic.bsky.social, & on technography for critical AI studies w/ @dluitse.bsky.social. 🔗 www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/datafiedweb/...
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Mardi 3 juin, découvrez comment l’évaluation des modèles IA évolue et soulève un enjeu politique majeur.
Une présentation d’ @annaschjoett.bsky.social et @dluitse.bsky.social suivie d’un échange sur le lancement de la collection « The Politics of ML Evaluation » dans Digital Society.
Plus d'info 🔽
Une présentation d’ @annaschjoett.bsky.social et @dluitse.bsky.social suivie d’un échange sur le lancement de la collection « The Politics of ML Evaluation » dans Digital Society.
Plus d'info 🔽
The Politics of Machine Learning Evaluation: From Present to Future | médialab Sciences Po
Le médialab reçoit Anna Schjøtt Hansen et Dieuwertje Luitse pour le prochain séminaire du 3 juin 2025. Elles feront une présentation d'ouverture sur les politiques d'évaluation de l'apprentissage auto...
medialab.sciencespo.fr
May 27, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Mardi 3 juin, découvrez comment l’évaluation des modèles IA évolue et soulève un enjeu politique majeur.
Une présentation d’ @annaschjoett.bsky.social et @dluitse.bsky.social suivie d’un échange sur le lancement de la collection « The Politics of ML Evaluation » dans Digital Society.
Plus d'info 🔽
Une présentation d’ @annaschjoett.bsky.social et @dluitse.bsky.social suivie d’un échange sur le lancement de la collection « The Politics of ML Evaluation » dans Digital Society.
Plus d'info 🔽
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Our article on the metaphor of hallucination and its use by big tech companies in relation to supposedly erroneous outputs from LLMs has finally been published :) @skoopit.bsky.social
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Between fact and fairy: tracing the hallucination metaphor in AI discourse - AI & SOCIETY
Large and powerful language models such as OpenAI’s GPT model family, Google’s LaMDA and BERT or Meta’s LlaMA are integral to many applications, such as translation, summarization or language generati...
link.springer.com
May 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Our article on the metaphor of hallucination and its use by big tech companies in relation to supposedly erroneous outputs from LLMs has finally been published :) @skoopit.bsky.social
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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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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🗓️ The next and final 2024-2025 session of the FlashLab seminar will feature Dieuwertje Luitse (@dluitse.bsky.social), PhD Candidate at the University of Amsterdam, with a talk on the technopolitical production of "otherness" through ML modelling and evaluation in medecine!
Abstract and more info ⤵️
Abstract and more info ⤵️
May 20, 2025 at 9:11 AM
🗓️ The next and final 2024-2025 session of the FlashLab seminar will feature Dieuwertje Luitse (@dluitse.bsky.social), PhD Candidate at the University of Amsterdam, with a talk on the technopolitical production of "otherness" through ML modelling and evaluation in medecine!
Abstract and more info ⤵️
Abstract and more info ⤵️