Cédric Durand

Article Provides An Ecological Critique Of Hayek’s Knowledge Problem In the journal Globalizations, Cédric Durand of the University of Geneva has published an article that utilises an analysis of green finance and the Anthropocene to criticise Friedrich Hayek’s…

In the journal Globalizations, @cedricdurand.bsky.social has published an article that critiques Friedrich Hayek’s knowledge problem through analysing green finance and the Anthropocene and outlines how socialist planning could be feasible in the 21st century. www.indep.network/article-prov...

YouTube video by ERC project AIMODELS Cédric Durand (University of Geneva) - Overaccumulating AI: rationale, faultlines, and politics

"Overaccumulating AI: rationale, faultlines, and politics". My intervention at the World Algorithm Conference early february in Venice. Thanks to @mttpsq.bsky.social, @giuliadalmaso.bsky.social and others for this wonderful event. youtu.be/K_IJ_LPg0aU?...

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@futurehistories.bsky.social insightful argument for #ecologicalplanning: to think that adhering to planetary boundaries is limiting choice now is disregarding the adverse and greater effect on choice and freedoms acting without ecology in mind will have and is having now. @cedricdurand.bsky.social

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thank you @futurehistories.bsky.social for this conversation !

"The more that the government relies on outside actors to carry out its core function, the more vulnerable it becomes to those private actors’ wants and desires, which may differ sharply from those of the administration itself."

Yapay zekâdan sonra Yapay zekâ “devrimi”, şimdilik bir üretkenlik mucizesinden çok şişen değerlemeleri ayakta tutan devasa bir altyapı seferberliği gibi görünüyor: veri merkezleri, GPU’lar, şebeke bağlantıları, enerji, s...

Thanks @textumdergi.bsky.social for this translation of After AI. textumdergi.net/yapay-zekada...

"Los cambios en el modo de producción no ocurren de la noche a la mañana; son graduales."
El Debate sobre el Tecnofeudalismo con @evgenymorozov.bsky.social mediado por Susan Watkins de la @newleftreview.bsky.social

« La rupture de l’atlantisme rend visible un triple échec de l’Europe » Pour les chercheurs Cédric Durand et Razmig Keucheyan, la présidence Trump marque la fin de l’atlantisme et oblige le Vieux Continent à un « pivot diplomatique vers les grands émergents » ainsi qu’à l...

"tandis que la Chine, contraint les développeurs à « soumettre les modèles d’IA générative aux autorités pour des évaluations de sécurité et à inclure des filigranes visibles et indélébiles sur les contenus générés par l’IA, », l’Europe s’aligne sur les Etats-Unis"
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« La rupture de l’atlantisme rend visible un triple échec de l’Europe » Pour les chercheurs Cédric Durand et Razmig Keucheyan, la présidence Trump marque la fin de l’atlantisme et oblige le Vieux Continent à un « pivot diplomatique vers les grands émergents » ainsi qu’à l...

"Donald Trump a fait claquer sur les Européens le fouet des nécessités externes, cette impulsion brutale qui oblige les sociétés à faire un bond transformateur, sous peine de se disloquer ou de se soumettre." (avec Razmig Keucheyan ) www.nouvelobs.com/opinions/202... Merci @nouvelobs.com

Buchcover von »Das Prinzip Verzweigung« von Cédric Durand und Razmig Keucheyan. Daneben steht der Untertitel des Buches – Über ökologische Planung in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft – und ein Button mit Text: Coming Soon.

Geht bald in Druck: unser neuer Analysen-Band »Das Prinzip Verzweigung« von Cédric Durand (Universität Genf) + Razmig Keucheyan (Universität Bordeaux), übersetzt aus dem Frz. Das Wirtschaftsmagazin Alternatives Economiques urteilte: »Bis heute eines der besten Bücher zur ökologischen Planung« /1

From @cedricdurand.bsky.social "Ecological planning is the alternative to Green finance. But its institutional design must acknowledge the non-identity of nature, the importance of the Polanyian internal overview, and the need for robust democratic countervailing forces."

Thanks Edemilson Parana, for initiating this special Issue on The Political Economy of Green-Digital Transition with many great papers: www.tandfonline.com/action/doSea...

Ecological planning is the alternative to Green finance. But its institutional design must acknowledge the non-identity of nature, the importance of the Polanyian internal overview, and the need for robust democratic countervailing forces. 6/

Still, reification tendencies are not confined to the realm of commodity fetishism; they are also present in bureaucratic and scientific methods and technologies and affect both nature and the very possibility of a meaningful life. 5/

Contra Hayek, I draw on Charles Bettelheim, who argues that the concrete possibilities of planning depend on the development of information systems. 4/

Contrastingly, the purpose of economic planning in the Anthropocene is to enable the emergence of an economic subject that is also an ecological subject, a subject capable of deploying a new form of reflexivity upon the entanglement of the natural and social spheres. 3/

Green finance relies on an epistemology that considers markets as an efficient information processor. It overlooks the issue of how knowledge about the environment should emerge and how it relates to the challenge of reshaping our economies to remain within planetary boundaries. 2/

The problem of knowledge in the Anthropocene In the twentieth century, debates about economic planning were largely shaped by arguments concerning knowledge and the acquisition of information. As the century drew to a close, the dispute was a...

In this paper I show that the prevalent forms of knowledge production and use are inadequate to guarantee the perpetuation of a safe ecological space and argue in favor of planning episteme against green finance 1/
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Cédric Durand, After AI — Sidecar Legacies of the bubble.

Fascinating piece by @cedricdurand.bsky.social . A key issue here - as per Microsoft’s recent laments - is the impossibility of forcing firms to adopt a technology that demoralises them and delivers no near-term profit. The limits of financial and cultural hype. newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

"Vers une épidémie de démoralisation? "l'utilisation intensive de l'IA est démotivante et déqualifiante, alimentant l'ennui et la médiocrité. Nous pourrions même assister à une « courbe en J" inversée de la productivité : les gains à court terme étant éclipsés par une moindre qualité du travail."

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The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers | Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Hum...

DESKILLING2: "As workers shift from task execution to AI oversight, they trade hands-on engagement for the challenge of verifying and editing AI outputs, revealing both the efficiency gains and the risks of diminished critical reflection" dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed thr...

DESKILLING 1: "Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels. These results raise concerns about the long-term educational implications of LLM reliance " arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

MEDIOCRITY: "While generative AI (GenAI) promises productive efficiency, it can paradoxically lead to lower-quality work. (..) AI assistance flattens the quality curve—it accelerates initial gains but sharply diminishes the returns on sustained effort" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Cédric Durand, After AI — Sidecar Legacies of the bubble.

An epidemic of workforce demoralization? "Intensive AI use is demotivating and deskilling, fuelling boredom and mediocrity. We could even see a reverse ‘productivity J-curve’: short-term productivity gains rapidly overwhelmed by a deterioration in labour quality" newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

With the world's eyes on US oil interests, let's not forget who benefits: The richest of the rich. Our research shows: 50% of the record fossil fuel profits in 2022 went to the wealthiest 1% of US Americans, the bottom 50% only received 1%.

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