On this page I share short snippets of my research, in the form of an old-fashioned blog. Enjoy reading! 🙂
AI Ethics as Power Analysis
Popular concepts like ‘explainability,’ ‘responsibility,’ ‘trustworthiness,’ and ‘safety’ tend to restrict normative debates about AI’s potential implications. In this blog, I propose a radically different, more critical way of approaching AI ethics: analyzing AI through the lens of social power. This blog post is a shortened and updated…
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On Meta’s AI glasses
Will Kylie Jenner be able to do for Meta AI Glasses what the Kodak Girl did for personal photography? In June 2026, Meta released a new type of AI-powered smart glasses, in collaboration with influencer Kylie Jenner. Meta’s previous versions of AI glasses received bad publicity earlier this…
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Technological progress?
Ever find yourself wondering if seemingly convenient technologies are truly benefitting you? Perhaps you’d be less lonely without social media, less fixated on your health-metrics without your smart watch, less surveilled without targeted advertisements, and less frustrated without having to talk to customer service chatbots when you’re in…
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Existentialists wanted
The omnipresence of AI in contemporary life is radically changing how people relate to their surroundings, to their loved ones, to their jobs and colleagues, and to their own identity and abilities. This is not only of ethical and societal importance, it also fundamentally changes the meaning and…
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Making ai work
While many worry about the ways in which artificial intelligence will change and replace human labor, much less attention goes out to the human labor needed to make AI work. However, a lot of human effort goes into AI development, before the technology is ready to automate any…
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Rosalie Waelen 