Annette Zimmermann

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In my book, I discuss this important issue in detail, amongst other things in conversation with Nadia Urbinati's absolutely brilliant essay in response to my philosophical view.

Reaching/un-rabbitholing that part of the population, and making a compelling case for why democracy is worth fighting for in the first place, is a central task in this area. Institutional change alone cannot accomplish that goal.

Big Tech oligarch’s discursive influence can lead people down an ideological rabbit hole that cannot simply be captured by familiar partisan political orientations, and that is hard to tackle from within bureaucratized party structures.

In this context, it's especially dangerous that a subset of the population still treats podcast monologues & antidemocratic manifestos penned by tech oligarchs essentially as aspirational lifestyle content…

eg if an attitude of undue deference to tech oligarchs continues to persist, and to those public officials that uncritically repeat corporate objectives—& if citizens fail to hold representatives accountable for neglecting the public interest when deciding how much power AI deployers can wield.

Creating more and better participation pathways for citizens to voice their preferences about different AI deployment decisions is crucial, of course. But those kinds of interventions will remain toothless if citizens routinely opt out of taking charge when they do have opportunities to do so…

One key insight from my book that this audience reaffirmed strongly: increasing democratic control over AI is a political mobilization problem even more than it is an institutional design problem.

Annette Zimmermann colloquium talk at Columbia University

Throwback to my colloquium talk at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social — such an honor to talk with such a brilliant audience about my book, which you can now [convince your university library] to pre-order!

Oooh I want to hear more about that!

Aw thank you Sameer! ✨

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This is co-authored with 3 of our brilliant grad students at the Uncertainty & AI group at UW: Andrew Zeppa, Srijan Pandey, and Kenneth Diao. Check out the full paper here: openreview.net/pdf?id=FjxyA...

Annette Zimmermann, philosophy of AI, AI ethics, neurips, democratizing AI, democratic AI, neural information processing systems, mexico city

Just arrived in Mexico City for NeurIPS’25! Presenting our position paper ‘Don’t Give UP on Democratizing AI for the Wrong Reasons’, synthesizing some interesting insights from my book. Fellow 🤖Philosophy of AI🤖 nerds in CDMX: dm me & let’s hang out!

Photo of the workshop participants at the Weizenbaum Institute, 17 October 2025

📢 Recap: The Workshop on Critical Theory of the Computational (16–17 Oct 2025, Weizenbaum Institute) brought 40 experts to explore how AI and digital systems shape society.
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Wie unterschiedlich gehen #EU & die #USA mit der Regulierung von #KI um? Am Mittwoch diskutieren @drzimmermann.bsky.social & @jonasfegert.bsky.social im #DigitalerSalon darüber, wie Technologien sich demokratisch gestalten lassen.

👉Ab 19 Uhr live am HIIG & im Stream: www.hiig.de/events/digit...

Who owns AI? On democratization, control and power relations A new home for all those who practice journalism, shape the public debate and thereby strengthen democracy. A media house for tomorrow. Here and in Berlin.

Event page: www.publix.de/en/events/wh...

Annette Zimmermann, Democratizing AI, Publix Berlin, political philosophy of AI, Milagros Miceli, Jonas Fegert

This coming Monday I’ll be discussing some core ideas from my book, Democratizing AI, with @milamiceli.bsky.social ( @dairinstitute.bsky.social @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social ) & @jonasfegert.bsky.social ( @kit.edu ) at Publix Berlin. Register here: pretix.eu/publix/wemge...

OZSW Dutch Research School of Philosophy 2025 annual conference poster Annette Zimmermann keynote Democratizing AI

Kicking off my summer research stay in Europe with a keynote lecture on my forthcoming book ‘Democratizing AI’ at the Annual Conference of the Dutch Research School of Philosophy (OZSW). Excited to see many familiar faces in Delft in a few days! #democratizingAI #philosophyofAI #AIethics

Bayesian Boot Camp

My awesome colleague Mike Titelbaum is organizing a ✨Bayesian Boot Camp✨ this summer. sites.google.com/view/bayesia... Apply by March 1!

Would love to see the syllabus once it’s done if you’re happy to share it ☺️

I like this paper by @azjacobs.bsky.social & hanna wallach arxiv.org/pdf/1912.05511

New TechEthics Colloquium Announced The Edmond & Lily Safra Center, Embedded EthiCS@Harvard, and the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy have announced the launch of a new TechEthics Colloquium to be co-convened by Mathias Risse and Jef...

Really looking forward to presenting new work on Democratizing AI at the first meeting of Harvard’s exciting new 🤖 Tech Ethics 🤖 colloquium next week! ethics.harvard.edu/news/new-tec...

Starts 3:30 pm, Bossa Room.

Excited to co-organize a #facct24 CRAFT session in Rio de Janeiro w Joana Varon (Coding Rights) & Nina da Hora (Instituto da Hora) on “Better Utopias: resisting Silicon Valley ideology and decolonizing our imaginaries of the future” w exciting talks by Timnit Gebru, Malu Freire a& Naue Bernardo!