Hannes Bajohr
@hannesbajohr.de
Working on AI, political theory, and the German philosophical tradition in the 20th c
German Dept #UCBerkeley
German Dept #UCBerkeley
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Hannes Bajohr
@hannesbajohr.de
· Nov 10
Hi. I teach and research at UC Berkeley on AI and its relation to literature, culture, and politics. These are my recent essays about the topic, covering ideology, image/text relations, meaning, authorship, agency, and other aspects of cultural AI.
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“The Latent Space of Meaning and the Novel” — Hannes Bajohr at Digital Aesthetics Workshop, Jan. 13, 2026
We are excited to announce our first event of 2026! Hannes Bajohr will present on "The Latent Space of Meaning and the Novel" on Tuesday, January 13, from 5-6:30pm PT. The event will take…
We are excited to announce our first event of 2026! Hannes Bajohr will present on "The Latent Space of Meaning and the Novel" on Tuesday, January 13, from 5-6:30pm PT. The event will take…
“The Latent Space of Meaning and the Novel” — Hannes Bajohr at Digital Aesthetics Workshop, Jan. 13, 2026
We are excited to announce our first event of 2026! Hannes Bajohr will present on "The Latent Space of Meaning and the Novel" on Tuesday, January 13, from 5-6:30pm PT. The event will take place in the Stanford Humanities Center Board Room. Refreshments will be served. Zoom link for those unable to join in-person: tinyurl.com/3xm7rdku We look forward to seeing you there!
www.blog.shanedenson.com
January 12, 2026 at 3:27 AM
“The Latent Space of Meaning and the Novel” — Hannes Bajohr at Digital Aesthetics Workshop, Jan. 13, 2026
We are excited to announce our first event of 2026! Hannes Bajohr will present on "The Latent Space of Meaning and the Novel" on Tuesday, January 13, from 5-6:30pm PT. The event will take…
We are excited to announce our first event of 2026! Hannes Bajohr will present on "The Latent Space of Meaning and the Novel" on Tuesday, January 13, from 5-6:30pm PT. The event will take…
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I'm seriously starting to question the credibility of the FIFA Peace Prize.
January 3, 2026 at 7:51 AM
I'm seriously starting to question the credibility of the FIFA Peace Prize.
Erscheint am 18. Dezember:
Schreiben nach KI, hg. von Hannes Bajohr und Ann Cotten.
»Was ist Schreiben nach KI? Die Dichternnnie schauen, gewohnheitsgemäß, genauer hin.«
www.matthes-seitz-berlin.de/buch/schreib...
Schreiben nach KI, hg. von Hannes Bajohr und Ann Cotten.
»Was ist Schreiben nach KI? Die Dichternnnie schauen, gewohnheitsgemäß, genauer hin.«
www.matthes-seitz-berlin.de/buch/schreib...
Schreiben nach KI
Matthes & Seitz Berlin - Was ist schreiben nach KI? Die Dichternnnie schauen, gewohnheitsgemäß, genauer hin. Dichtung muss, entgegen romantischer Vorbehalte, noch keine besondere Haltung gegenüber Tec...
www.matthes-seitz-berlin.de
December 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Erscheint am 18. Dezember:
Schreiben nach KI, hg. von Hannes Bajohr und Ann Cotten.
»Was ist Schreiben nach KI? Die Dichternnnie schauen, gewohnheitsgemäß, genauer hin.«
www.matthes-seitz-berlin.de/buch/schreib...
Schreiben nach KI, hg. von Hannes Bajohr und Ann Cotten.
»Was ist Schreiben nach KI? Die Dichternnnie schauen, gewohnheitsgemäß, genauer hin.«
www.matthes-seitz-berlin.de/buch/schreib...
Erscheint am 18. Dezember:
Schreiben nach KI, hg. von Hannes Bajohr und Ann Cotten.
»Was ist Schreiben nach KI? Die Dichternnnie schauen, gewohnheitsgemäß, genauer hin.«
www.matthes-seitz-berlin.de/buch/schreib...
Schreiben nach KI, hg. von Hannes Bajohr und Ann Cotten.
»Was ist Schreiben nach KI? Die Dichternnnie schauen, gewohnheitsgemäß, genauer hin.«
www.matthes-seitz-berlin.de/buch/schreib...
Schreiben nach KI
Matthes & Seitz Berlin - Was ist schreiben nach KI? Die Dichternnnie schauen, gewohnheitsgemäß, genauer hin. Dichtung muss, entgegen romantischer Vorbehalte, noch keine besondere Haltung gegenüber Tec...
www.matthes-seitz-berlin.de
December 11, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Erscheint am 18. Dezember:
Schreiben nach KI, hg. von Hannes Bajohr und Ann Cotten.
»Was ist Schreiben nach KI? Die Dichternnnie schauen, gewohnheitsgemäß, genauer hin.«
www.matthes-seitz-berlin.de/buch/schreib...
Schreiben nach KI, hg. von Hannes Bajohr und Ann Cotten.
»Was ist Schreiben nach KI? Die Dichternnnie schauen, gewohnheitsgemäß, genauer hin.«
www.matthes-seitz-berlin.de/buch/schreib...
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2026 will be the year for our new book, 'First Encounters with AI!'
What do writers make of a machine coming after words?
With the entry of AI into the space of writing, longstanding human questions about intention, desire, authorship, labor, and value gain new urgency.
What do writers make of a machine coming after words?
With the entry of AI into the space of writing, longstanding human questions about intention, desire, authorship, labor, and value gain new urgency.
December 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
2026 will be the year for our new book, 'First Encounters with AI!'
What do writers make of a machine coming after words?
With the entry of AI into the space of writing, longstanding human questions about intention, desire, authorship, labor, and value gain new urgency.
What do writers make of a machine coming after words?
With the entry of AI into the space of writing, longstanding human questions about intention, desire, authorship, labor, and value gain new urgency.
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Today (11/20) at NYU:
November 20, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Today (11/20) at NYU:
Two years ago, my novel "(Berlin, Miami)" came out in German. I "wrote" it by training a language model (GPT-J/GPT-NeoX) on four contemporary novels. The outcome is, unsurprisingly, surreal and fractured and, although funny, not a straightforward narrative at all. soundcloud.com/hannes-bajoh...
Co-Yoga: Metamasken AI Self-Awareness Explained
Listen to Co-Yoga: Metamasken AI Self-Awareness Explained by Hannes Bajohr #np on #SoundCloud
soundcloud.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Two years ago, my novel "(Berlin, Miami)" came out in German. I "wrote" it by training a language model (GPT-J/GPT-NeoX) on four contemporary novels. The outcome is, unsurprisingly, surreal and fractured and, although funny, not a straightforward narrative at all. soundcloud.com/hannes-bajoh...
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Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement.
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
Scientists call on the President of the European Commission to retract AI hype statement
Experts in AI call on the President of the European Commission to retract unscientific AI hype statement she made in the budget speech.
www.iccl.ie
November 10, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement.
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
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Mamdani cracks 1M votes, the first NYC mayor to do so since John Lindsay in 1969
November 5, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Mamdani cracks 1M votes, the first NYC mayor to do so since John Lindsay in 1969
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People who are leaving NYC, please post pix of your U-Hauls!
November 5, 2025 at 2:34 AM
People who are leaving NYC, please post pix of your U-Hauls!
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wow, all those AI ads for nothing. who would've thought?
November 5, 2025 at 3:26 AM
wow, all those AI ads for nothing. who would've thought?
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Tucker Carlson's friendly interview with a Holocaust denier raises new questions about Zohran Mamdani's commitment to fighting antisemitism.
November 2, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Tucker Carlson's friendly interview with a Holocaust denier raises new questions about Zohran Mamdani's commitment to fighting antisemitism.
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This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.
October 23, 2025 at 12:25 AM
This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.
Read my new preprint "Surface Reading LLMs: Synthetic Text and its Styles." I argue that we should not only look at the depth behind LLMs, but also take the surfaces seriously with which they present us: as the principal plane on which we encounter them in the life-world.
Surface Reading LLMs: Synthetic Text and its Styles
Despite a potential plateau in ML advancement, the societal impact of large language models lies not in approaching superintelligence but in generating text surfaces indistinguishable from human writi...
arxiv.org
October 28, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Read my new preprint "Surface Reading LLMs: Synthetic Text and its Styles." I argue that we should not only look at the depth behind LLMs, but also take the surfaces seriously with which they present us: as the principal plane on which we encounter them in the life-world.
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📚Join us next Tuesday 7pm UK time, on Zoom for the international book club 'Meet the Author -> @hannesbajohr.de" ✨Gespräch mit Hannes Bajohr über Literatur & AI ✨ (genau, auf Deutsch).
October 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM
📚Join us next Tuesday 7pm UK time, on Zoom for the international book club 'Meet the Author -> @hannesbajohr.de" ✨Gespräch mit Hannes Bajohr über Literatur & AI ✨ (genau, auf Deutsch).
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Another great product launch from OpenAI!
ChatGPT’s new Atlas browser doesn’t just see what you read — it remembers it.
@eff.org’s Lena Cohen showed me it even logged “memories” of her looking for *abortion care* and her doctor’s name. Out-surveils even Chrome.
My @washingtonpost.com column: wapo.st/49bOcVC
@eff.org’s Lena Cohen showed me it even logged “memories” of her looking for *abortion care* and her doctor’s name. Out-surveils even Chrome.
My @washingtonpost.com column: wapo.st/49bOcVC
Column | ChatGPT just came out with its own web browser. Use it with caution.
OpenAI’s Atlas promises AI-powered convenience. The price? Letting ChatGPT track and store “memories” of what you do online.
wapo.st
October 22, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Another great product launch from OpenAI!
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This is why you see the Bank of England, the Financial Times, and so many more warning about the risks of all economic growth depending upon AI, and yet perfectly rational-short-term investors throw even more money into frontier model development. Correction is coming. futurism.com/artificial-i...
Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster
The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.
futurism.com
October 10, 2025 at 3:39 PM
This is why you see the Bank of England, the Financial Times, and so many more warning about the risks of all economic growth depending upon AI, and yet perfectly rational-short-term investors throw even more money into frontier model development. Correction is coming. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Cool :)
JPMorgan Chase reports that $1.2T of debt is now tied to AI-related companies, making it the largest segment in the investment-grade market (Caleb Mutua/Bloomberg)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
October 7, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Cool :)
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Excited to learn that @hannesbajohr.de and I got the Peder Sather grant to study AI and narration in collaboration with The Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen, led by Jill Walker Rettberg. Our goal is to bridge humanities and CS approaches to AI and narration.
October 3, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Excited to learn that @hannesbajohr.de and I got the Peder Sather grant to study AI and narration in collaboration with The Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen, led by Jill Walker Rettberg. Our goal is to bridge humanities and CS approaches to AI and narration.
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Look who came with
September 18, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Look who came with
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“The new Elsevier AI solution will empower researchers to identify emerging areas of inquiry + funding opportunities, uncover knowledge gaps, synthesize literature rapidly, connect with collaborators + accelerate productivity.” Academia should’ve long ago ✂️ ties with such commercial vendors.
Company News: Elsevier Announces Development of a "Next-Generation 'End-To-End' AI-Powered Solution For Academic and Corporate Researchers"; Closed Beta Launching Today, Available For Purchase During Q1 2026 www.elsevier.com/about/press-... @elsevierconnect.bsky.social #AI #scholcomm
September 17, 2025 at 1:38 PM
“The new Elsevier AI solution will empower researchers to identify emerging areas of inquiry + funding opportunities, uncover knowledge gaps, synthesize literature rapidly, connect with collaborators + accelerate productivity.” Academia should’ve long ago ✂️ ties with such commercial vendors.