Hannes Bajohr

Hannes Bajohr

@hannesbajohr.de

Working on AI, political theory, and the German philosophical tradition in the 20th c German Dept #UCBerkeley

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Hannes Bajohr
@hannesbajohr.de

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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Fabian Offert
@zentralwerkstatt.org

One more week to go – if you're in, or adjacent to DH and have been trying to wrap your head around AI and what it means for the field, send us your thoughts!

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Nina Beguš
@ninabegus.bsky.social

What happens to writing when machines can write? How are novelists, poets, and screenwriters responding to AI, and what does it mean for creativity, authorship, and the future of storytelling? Join us on November 18 at UC Berkeley with @hannesbajohr.de, Alex-Saum Pascual, and Nick Nardini.

Hannes Bajohr
@hannesbajohr.de

Happy birthday, Judith Shklar! 2013 übersetzte ich "Der Liberalismus der Furcht" und seitdem insgesamt sieben Bücher von ihr. Und ein paar gibt es noch. (Die Kacheln sind vom Verlag, der auf Bluesky nicht vertreten ist.)

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lastpositivist.bsky.social
@lastpositivist.bsky.social

The old line that analytic philosophy is answering questions that come naturally to toddlers via methods that come naturally to lawyers remains undefeated.

noam@noamchompers.bsky.social

It is sorta a funny thing about philosophy that the questions are inherently fascinating and exciting—there’s a reason people wind up talking about this stuff in dorm rooms—and the best methods we have for investigating them involve being as tedious and pedantic and boring as possible

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Philippe Wampfler
@phwa.ch

Hätte nicht gedacht, dass sowas wie die Mamdani-Hass-Kampagne in Europa denkbar wäre. Was die etablierten Medien gerade wegen Berlin abziehen, übertrifft das fast noch: Weil es aus der Mitte kommt. Wie könnt ihr das supporten, «liberale» und «konservative» Mitbürger:innen?

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Infrastructure is politics
@rational.bsky.social

Replying to @rational.bsky.social

Lina Khan has pointed out that have robust and well-developed theories of product liability law. What we are missing is *enforcement* www.commondreams.org/news/ai-liab...

commondreams.orgAI Firms Can and Must Face Liability for 'Dangerous, Unvetted Products,' Says Lina Khan | Common DreamsFormer FTC Chair Lina Khan demands action on dangerous AI, calling for accountability for companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. Should lawmakers impose regulations to prevent AI from causing harm? The ...

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Fabian Offert
@zentralwerkstatt.org

UK friends, next Tuesday we will Europe-launch our book at King's College: 9/2, 4L30pm, KCL Macadam Building MAC 106. Panel w/ @joannazylinska.bsky.social, @dchavezheras.bsky.social & @mrsbunz.bsky.social hosted by the Creative AI Lab. Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/digit...

tickettailor.comSelect tickets – Creative AI presents: 'Vector Media' Book Launch 📚🌐 – Macadam, Surrey St - King's College LondonCreative AI presents: 'Vector Media' Book Launch 📚🌐 – Macadam, Surrey St - King's College London, Tue 22 Sep 2026 - We would like to invite you to attend our book launch celebrating Vector Media with ...
Hannes Bajohr
@hannesbajohr.de

So we are back at the "open letter" stage? As I wrote two years ago, the "AI risk" is a red herring; we should rather be worried by the privatization of language and fear a "synthetic public sphere" that comes with it. For whoever controls language models controls politics.

Hannes Bajohr@hannesbajohr.de

"Whoever controls language models controls politics" (2024) is about LLMs being inherently ideological, the change of the public sphere once speech is automated, and the need for communization of AI.

researchgate.net(PDF) Whoever Controls Language Models Controls PoliticsPDF | On Jan 24, 2024, Hannes Bajohr published Whoever Controls Language Models Controls Politics | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

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404 Media
@404media.co

EXCLUSIVE: Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 Media.

404media.coInside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT ChatsHumans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...
Hannes Bajohr
@hannesbajohr.de

Darin plädiere ich für die Oberflächenlektüre von LLM-Output, diskutiere Laienforensik, Mensch-Maschine-Schismogenese und Stil als Einheit von Komplexität, mit der wir eine Intuition für artifiziellen Text ausbilden können - den es am Ende vielleicht gar nicht gibt.

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Nina Beguš
@ninabegus.bsky.social

Excited for our book to come out this fall! @annelyse.bsky.social , @sashastiles.bsky.social, @jamesyu.bsky.social, @hannesbajohr.de, @kyliu99.bsky.social, @realiainsthomas.bsky.social Thank you to @textculture.bsky.social for support

University of Michigan Press@uofmpress.bsky.social

What happens to writing when language is no longer used only by humans? Contributors reflect on writing in the time of AI in this new edited collection from @ninabegus.bsky.social. Pre-order your copy and get 30% off with code UMWEB30: buff.ly/CdfV9hx

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
@olivia.science

"confused" 🤣

pileque.bsky.social@pileque.bsky.social

"The KPMG report ... found that an astonishing 29 percent of them had no idea where the growing costs associated with AI were coming from. A third confessed that their own cluelessness about AI economics was a barrier to successfully deploying AI in the workplace." futurism.com/future-socie...

futurism.comExecs Confused and Horrified by the Huge AI Bills After Thinking They Could Replace Workers for FreeNearly one-third of corporate executives surveyed did not understand how their operating costs relate to AI deployment.

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Arne Semsrott
@arnesemsrott.bsky.social

Bitte unterzeichnet unsere Petition gegen die IFG-Abschaffung! Das hilft uns dabei, Druck gegenüber der SPD aufzubauen. In den ersten 14 Stunden schon 120.000 Unterschriften!

FragDenStaat@fragdenstaat.de

Die Spitzen von CDU, CSU und SPD wollen das Informationsfreiheitsgesetz abschaffen – einen Grundpfeiler unserer Demokratie. 2025 haben wir den Angriff der Union aufs IFG gemeinsam abgewehrt. Das schaffen wir auch heute – unterzeichnet jetzt unsere WeAct-Petition! weact.campact.de/petitions/sp...

weact.campact.deSPD, stoppt den Frontalangriff auf die Informationsfreiheit!Wir alle haben das Recht auf staatliche Informationen. Seit 2006 müssen Behörden auf Antrag nach dem Informationsfreiheitsgesetz (IFG) Dokumente herausgeben – seien es Verträge, interne Weisungen oder...

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Nina Beguš
@ninabegus.bsky.social

We have the digital and physical galley available for those who’d like to review First Encounters with AI: Writers on Writing. Let me know, and I’ll connect you to the press editor

Nina Beguš@ninabegus.bsky.social

The book is 50% off until the end of June: doi.org/10.3998/mpub... Also available under open access and free on Kindle! Another book in this framework, also on sale, is coming out in the fall: essays by writers reflecting on the entry of AI into reading & writing: press.umich.edu/Books/F/Firs...

doi.orgArtificial Humanities: A Fictional Perspective on Language in AI<I>Artificial Humanities</I> explores how literature, history, and art can deepen our understanding of artificial intelligence and its development. By examining fictional representations of AI in para...
Hannes Bajohr
@hannesbajohr.de

In it, the authors discuss AI as a fourth type of retention in the sense Stiegler used it: As the externalization not of actual but rather potential memory.

Hannes Bajohr
@hannesbajohr.de

Second that! Just taught it and it’s excellent.

James E. Dobson@jeddobson.bsky.social

Bound to be one of the most important critical and theoretical books on the meaning of neural networks (and not just for vision). Congratulations to Leonardo Impett and Fabian Offert @zentralwerkstatt.org! Freshly published from meson press and University of Minnesota Press. @uminnpress.bsky.social