"Profecía constituye un ensayo inteligente y estimulante que invita a replantear nuestra relación con la inteligencia artificial y, sobre todo, con la incertidumbre." @debatelibros.bsky.social Libro: www.penguinlibros.com/es/economia-... Reseña: www.nuevarevista.net/profecia-car...

Profecía | Penguin Libros

Un ensayo para reflexionar sobre los peligros de los nuevos oráculos que dominan nuestra era.«De los oráculos y horóscopos a los algoritmos, de los dados a los datos: cómo intentamos predecir el futur...

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Very happy and grateful to find #Prophecy high up in the list of recommendations for summer reads from @null. #books #bookrecommendations Get the book in the UK: amzn.eu/d/02LpZFLS Get the book in the US: a.co/d/0ftIwcBq www.mckinsey.com/featured-ins...

“There is no pleasure or pain for an AI, no skin in the game,” the philosopher Carissa Véliz writes in her recent #book Prophecy. As a result, an AI “cannot care, and therefore cannot value”. #authors www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Why does everything feel so joyless? Welcome to the age of decadence without pleasure | Michèle Mendelssohn and Charlie Tyson

Decadence in our era comes in technologically mediated forms, emptied of desire and obsessed with self-optimisation

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"Carissa Véliz, en Profecía, ofrece un puente entre los rituales antiguos y el proceso que nos conduce a establecer lo sagrado." Somos criaturas ansiosas y sedientas de certezas, lo que nos hace aceptar las predicciones algorítmicas como revelaciones. #libros www.eleconomista.com.mx/amp/opinion/...

En 'Profecía' @carissaveliz.bsky.social plantea una pregunta fascinante: ¿qué ocurre cuando una predicción deja de ayudarnos a comprender el futuro y empieza a decidirlo? De los oráculos antiguos a la IA, un libro sobre predicción, poder y libertad humana. ↓ maquinascognitivas.com/profecia-car...

In her book "Prophecy" @carissaveliz.bsky.social thoroughly debunks the idea that AI systems are capable of delivering justice. Zuck's "superintelligent lawyer" is a demented fantasy. (Carissa talks about justice & AI in our Techtonic interview: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... )

Russell Brandom@russellbrandom.bsky.social · last wk.

A telling passage from Zuck's WSJ op-ed: "Imagine everyone has a superintelligent lawyer. Justice would be carried out much more fairly and efficiently than it is today." I'm really not sure this is true!

PLEASE, everybody read PROPHECY by @carissaveliz.bsky.social and pay attention to what she says about predictions and power. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/759692...

Prophecy by Carissa Véliz: 9780385550970 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

“Lively. . . . Rousing. . . . Prophecy—roving, intelligent, irreducibly idiosyncratic—can expand our sense of possibility, starting now.” —The New York Times Book Review ...

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Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · last wk.

If we allow this, we cannot be taken seriously. On a metaphysical level, this might be the distillation of all the national rot. www.reuters.com/world/us/kal...

"The act of prediction is more than just an objective, educated guess about the future: it’s often an exercise of power that can help bend the future toward a desired outcome." New from me, on the book "Prophecy" by @carissaveliz.bsky.social - buttondown.com/creativegood...

Big Tech predicts the future, to our detriment

When I was young graduate student at the MIT Media Lab, I came across this quote from computer scientist Alan Kay: The best way to predict the future is to...

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'Profecía: lecciones sobre el uso y abuso de las predicciones, desde los antiguos oráculos hasta la IA', de @carissaveliz.bsky.social. Un texto fundamental para proteger nuestro futuro contra quienes pretenden lucrarse a costa de nuestro temor a la incertidumbre. @debatelibros.bsky.social

I enjoyed doing this podcast with @markhurst.bsky.social about #Prophecy. Check it out! #books podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Carissa Veliz, author, "Prophecy" from Jul 20, 2026

Podcast Episode · Techtonic with Mark Hurst | WFMU · July 20 · 1 sec

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"Véliz leaves us with 10 lessons in prediction at the end of #Prophecy, urging us (...) to increase our exposure to serendipity. (...) The most important events in our lives, she argues, are likely to be the least predictable." By @richove.bsky.social. #authors observer.co.uk/culture/book...

How data took over the world | The Observer

Roopika Risam’s Data Empire shows how information shaped our past, while Carissa Véliz’s Prophecy asks: will we let surveillance capitalism determine our future?

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Thanks! 🙏 #bookrecommendation #Prophecy

CJ@mateloos.be · 2w ago

Fitting you should mention horoscopes when it comes to AI. I've finished (listening to) Prophecy by @carissaveliz.bsky.social in which she likens AI to the oracles & astrologers from yore. The responsibilities and risks become distributed, the profit & knowledge centralized. Can strongly recommend:

Check out Milo Phillips-Brown latest paper on algorithmic neutrality. Algorithms wield power unfairly, and much has been said about algorithmic fairness. In contrast, algorithmic neutrality has been largely neglected. What is it? Is it possible? #AIEthics www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Algorithmic Neutrality

Algorithms wield increasing power over our lives. They can and often do wield that power unfairly, and much has been said about algorithmic fairness. In contrast, algorithmic neutrality has been la...

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A perfect illustration of the mechanism I explore in #Prophecy: surveillance at the service of #prediction. Papa John's is surveilling your grocery shopping to predict when you're low on food and more likely to order pizza... www.adexchanger.com/tv/papa-john...

Papa Johns Can Predict When Your Fridge Is Empty | AdExchanger

Papa Johns tapped NBCUniversal, Instacart and the dentsu-owned media agency Carat for help reaching consumers when they’re low on groceries.

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#Prophecy, spotted in the wild by a kind reader in River House Books in Carmel California! #book

For those who don't follow me on LinkedIn. I have just published a few thoughts on @carissaveliz.bsky.social' great book. Highly recommended! Fearless, funny, and very enlightening! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

No se me ocurre mejor lectura para el avión, @carissaveliz.bsky.social. Da gusto que tengamos esto en la biblioteca de @deusto.bsky.social. Hemos hecho un buen pedido de #AIEthics

I am halfway through PROPHECY by @carissaveliz.bsky.social and am annoyed that I have to put it down to do my work today. It's important, and everyone should read it. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/759692...

Prophecy by Carissa Véliz: 9780385550970 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

“Lively. . . . Rousing. . . . Prophecy—roving, intelligent, irreducibly idiosyncratic—can expand our sense of possibility, starting now.” —The New York Times Book Review ...

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Many thanks to @carissaveliz.bsky.social for talking to me about her excellent new book “Prophecy: Prediction, Power, and the Fight for the Future, from Ancient Oracles to AI,” which is as much a timely critique of Big Tech and surveillance capitalism as it is a treatise on living life well

Lawfare@lawfaremedia.org · 4w ago

On Lawfare Daily, @tylermcbrien.com talked to @carissaveliz.bsky.social about her new book, “Prophecy: Prediction, Power, and the Fight for the Future, from Ancient Oracles to AI,” why a healthy democracy—and a life well lived—requires uncertainty, and more. youtu.be/Ur-UPmjFxFs

It's not OK to wear smart glasses around other people. It's not cool. It's creepy, disrespectful. It pollutes the public sphere with the oppression of surveillance. It puts the onus on non-Glassholes; that's not asking for consent. www.vogue.com/article/do-s...

Do Smart Glasses Have a Surveillance Problem?

Big Tech is investing in fashion’s cultural legitimacy to make AI smart glasses socially acceptable, but consumers view them as synonymous with surveillance. Is removing the camera the key to adoption...

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¡Qué suerte y qué privilegio! Irene Vallejo sobre “Profecía”: “El futuro no se prescribe: se escribe.” Gracias @irenevalmore.bsky.social 🙏 #libros elpais.com/opinion/2026...

El último misterio

Los oráculos digitales prometieron un mundo más democrático, pero han gestado monopolios con liderazgos despóticos

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"The most promising thing is that people really care about #privacy. Poll after poll shows it. They’re angry about how technology companies are unleashing new technologies recklessly, without accountability." By @daniel-solove.bsky.social www.wsj.com/tech/cyberse...

How to Maintain Our Privacy in the AI Age

Laws that give consumers more control over their data aren’t working because digital technologies have become too complicated. There is a better way.

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Qué lujo y qué honor que nada menos que Antonio Muñoz Molina haya leído y recomiende Profecía, y que muestre su relevancia para entender a profetas contemporáneos. Wow. "En un libro muy bien escrito sobre el negocio y el fraude de la predicción..." elpais.com/opinion/2026...

"Technology and social media promised to bring us together, but more often it feels like they siphon each of us into a solitary lifestyle, and it’s hurting us.” Bookstores are filling a social void. Go for the social event, stay for the #books? lithub.com/a-bookstore-...

A Bookstore Boom in a Time of Literacy Decline

I was standing in line at Chaucer’s Books, my local indie, when it occurred to me that the line was longer than usual. This has been happening regularly enough that I’ve stopped being s…

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“Boards that have treated AI ethics as a reputational question will have to treat it as a litigation risk, faster than most of them currently expect.” #AIEthics #BusinessEthics www.ft.com/content/64fc...

Ethical AI rows open way to wave of litigation

Lawyers are at the forefront of debate and dispute over the technology’s lawful and responsible use

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If you study #philosophy, not only might you have a job (despite your parents' worries), but you might even have an *interesting* job! "In 2024 (...) 7% of those who had studied computer science were unemployed, against just 5.1% of philosophers." www.economist.com/science-and-...

Why big AI labs are hiring so many philosophers

The technology presents all sorts of thorny problems—a philosopher’s favourite kind

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My ambassador at the UN bookshop in Geneva, spotted by two kind readers! #Prophecy #books #authors

#Prophecy, in excellent company, spotted in the wild at the Zurich airport by a kind reader. #books #authors

Works mentioned in danielsolove.substack.com/p/privacy-ai... include ones by @aliciasn.bsky.social @thomaskadri.bsky.social @hartzog.bsky.social @kashhill.bsky.social @paulschwartz.bsky.social @evanselinger.bsky.social @chinmayisharma.bsky.social @iajunwa.bsky.social @carissaveliz.bsky.social