Alexander Laufer
@alexlaufer.bsky.social
Tech + discrimination researcher @AmnestyNL.
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Vrije verkiezingen zijn daarnaast ook niet de enige voorwaarden om van democratie te spreken
January 13, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Vrije verkiezingen zijn daarnaast ook niet de enige voorwaarden om van democratie te spreken
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We also go through many arguments that can be used as counters to typical false frames forced upon us, such as:
1. the powerful nonsense that we as experts know nothing
(Section 3.1 here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...)
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1. the powerful nonsense that we as experts know nothing
(Section 3.1 here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...)
3/n
![3.1 Rejection of expertise, ironically including our own
Being in a colonizing discipline first demands and then encourages an attitude that might
be called intellectual hubris. Furthermore, since you cannot master all the disciplines that
you have designs on, you need confidence that your knowledge makes the ‘traditional
wisdom’ of these fields unworthy of serious consideration. Here too, the AI scientist
feels that seeing things through a computational prism so fundamentally changes the
rules of the game in the social and behavioural sciences that everything that came before
is relegated to a period of intellectual immaturity.
Sherry Turkle (1984, p. 230)
Every field that comes into contact with AI discourse becomes infected even within AI as a field of
study (recall Table 1). Our colleagues have embraced these systems, uncritically incorporating them
into their workflows and their classrooms, without input from experts on automation, cognitive science, computer science, gender and diversity studies, human-computer interaction, pedagogy, psychology, and law to name but a few fields with direct relevant expertise (Sloane et al. 2024). Meanwhile, technology companies have rushed to invest in ‘AI ethics’ or ‘AI safety’ to ethics wash their
claims, thereby “laundering accountability” (as Abeba Birhane explains in Arseni 2025) and “distracti[ng] from real AI ethics” (Crane 2021), while censoring academics and thus, violating academic
freedom (Gebru and Torres 2024; Gerdes 2022; Goudarzi 2025; Munn 2023; Ochigame 2019; Suarez
et al. 2025; Tafani 2023).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vsyj5jtayxcq5dw5mtja4xtb/bafkreihavj4y4hvuqmervolkakodhui7qozn2jmnsrav5lilv37cecg6bq@jpeg)
September 6, 2025 at 8:19 AM
We also go through many arguments that can be used as counters to typical false frames forced upon us, such as:
1. the powerful nonsense that we as experts know nothing
(Section 3.1 here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...)
3/n
1. the powerful nonsense that we as experts know nothing
(Section 3.1 here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...)
3/n
