Mark Coeckelbergh

Technofascism: AI, Big Tech, and the new authoritarianism In the shadow of the fascism of the 1930s, George Orwell wrote 1984. A new study suggests that his world is closer than we want to think

A summary of my article on technofascism by Stephen McNair
eastangliabylines.co.uk/democracy/te...

Greetings from Berlin, where I will speak today about consciousness and AI/robotics at the World Forum of the future of democracy, tech/AI and humankind

Other speakers at the Forum include Hilary Clinton, Susan Schneider, David Gunkel, Joanna Bryson, Sandra Wachter, and various filmmakers

Deeply honoured to have been appointed to the United Nations’ Independent International Scientific Panel on AI by the United Nations General Assembly, on recommendation of the Secretary-General.

Here is the list of members www.un.org/independent-...

AI, climate change and justice: elements for a normative framework centring the Global South - AI and Ethics AI and Ethics - AI’s inextricable materiality is central to its environmental impact. From energy-intensive computation to the extractive demands of hardware and infrastructure, AI...

New publication on AI, climate change, and justice for the global south

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Greetings from Hong Kong, where I will give an invited talk tomorrow at the philosophy department of HKU

Technofascism: AI, Big Tech, and the new authoritarianism - AI & SOCIETY The rapid development of digital technologies, including AI, is having a significant impact on the social, economic, and political life. Yet, while presented as milestones in innovation and progress, ...

New article on AI and fascism

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Author copy arrived

PhD vacancies

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當AI取得話語權，人類還剩下什麼？：以當代哲學與溝通理論探討AI的語言、意識與作者權威性問題- TAAZE 讀冊生活 當AI取得話語權，人類還剩下什麼？：以當代哲學與溝通理論探討AI的語言、意識與作者權威性問題. Communicative AI: A Critical Introduction to Large Language Models. 馬克．科克爾柏格、大衛．岡克爾. 江鈺婷. 商周出版. 9786263907829. Chat GPT、Gemini、Grok、Claude...各種AI工具現世，能寫...

Chinese translation of the book that I recently wrote with @coeckelbergh.bsky.social "Communicative AI" @politybooks.bsky.social has just been published and is now available. www.taaze.tw/products/111...

Check out our chapter on the relational approach (with David Gunkel) in this new volume

Chapter on cultural robotics and colonialism in this volume

Enemies, Scapegoats, and the Antichrist Understanding Peter Thiel’s Anti-Democratic Ideology

My take on Thiel and the Antichrist coeckelbergh.medium.com/enemies-scap...

Opinion | Your Phone Isn’t a Drug. It’s a Portal to the Otherworld.

Happy to see my work mentioned in this @nytimes article

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/o...

I just talked in the Belgian Parliament about the ethics of AI

Greetings from Tokyo, where I will do a keynote at the Business-University Forum of Japan

Judge a book by its cover.
The book that @coeckelbergh.bsky.social and I wrote on #LLMs and #GenAI --"Communicative #AI" @politybooks.bsky.social--is featured on the @betterimagesofai.bsky.social blog.

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Talking soon at the CultTech summit in Vienna. Keynote on generative AI and the future of creativity

www.culttechsummit.com

Politiquette: Liberalism, identity, and free speech on AI-powered digital social media - Ethics and Information Technology How can liberal thinking deal with identity and recognition matters in politics? This long-standing question in political philosophy has gained new relevance and urgency in the face of issues concerning offense and censorship in digital social media, especially in the light of the use of AI. Typically, there are two competing views on this issue: a classical liberal one, according to which identity has no place in politics and free speech is paramount, and the more recent view that personal and group identity and recognition should be important, if not central, in liberal politics (for example when it comes to issues of justice) and that free speech should be regulated accordingly, for instance to avoid offense and create safe online spaces. The latter view has become increasingly popular among left liberals, but also stretches or, according to some, transgresses, the boundaries of liberalism. Usually, a mix of both positions is used to justify current digital tech policy. This paper proposes a third position, which is not just a mix of both positions but which is conceptually more innovative: making a distinction between politics and politiquette, which in analogy to etiquette is about “soft” values and norms such as respect, moderation, openness, and tolerance as opposed to “hard” political rights and liberal political principles such as freedom and justice, it argues that identity and recognition claims have a place in politiquette (next to the private sphere) and that politiquette helps to create the conditions for politics but is not itself political. Whatever other “hard” reasons there may be to create such conditions, politiquette is one sufficient reason. In this way, the paper attempts to carve out a conceptual space for identity and recognition, while retaining a liberal position. After outlining the position, a discussion of potential objections enables further clarification and refinement of the position as well as more engagement with relevant contemporary work.

New article published
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Today I talk about “Technology as process” at the ontology congress in San Sebastián

www.ontologia.info/es/index.php

Center for Environmental and Technology Ethics - Prague | Centrum pro environmentální a technologickou etiku - Praha Center for Environmental and Technology Ethics - Prague | Centrum pro environmentální a technologickou etiku - Praha

In Prague for our cohabitability conference!

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@coeckelbergh.bsky.social presenting "The Political Philosophy of #AI" @politybooks.bsky.social during the "Seminal Texts in AI Ethics" at HBKU Doha, Qata

Both, Russian cosmism is definitely more complex and interesting as you suggest (and as I suggest in my review)

Hope to see you in Granada some time next year!

@coeckelbergh.bsky.social during the opening plenary session "AI Ethics at a Crossroads" at the Hamad Bin Khalifa University conference "AI Ethics: The Convergence of Technology and Diverse Moral Traditions." Doha, Qatar.

Greetings from Doha

I wrote a book review on the influence of Russian cosmism on Silicon Valley’s transhumanism. One way to better understand where some of their crazy ideas come from.

www.sav.sk/journals/upl...

LLMs and the future of writing

Arrived in Dalian, China 🇨🇳 , for talks at Dalian University of Technology

Yesterday I taught at the interdisciplinary summer school "Towards Human-Centered, Inclusive, and Equitable Artificial Intelligence" in Pisa, Italy, organised by Francesco Marcelloni as part of our Circle U. (European University Alliance) AI hub activities

Preparing for my keynote at Leuven AI on Monday

ai.kuleuven.be/600yearskul