Carissa Véliz

Philosopher at the University of Oxford's Institute for Ethics in AI; author of Privacy Is Power (2020), an Economist book of the year, and Prophecy.

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A speaker does not consent to being filmed just by giving a talk.

A person doesn’t consent to being filmed by being a speaker, so you are in fact filming someone without their consent (unless you’ve asked them beforehand, naturally).

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Privacy is not a contemporary construct.

Two ideals come up time and again that caught my attention: the value of freedom, and of privacy, the latter being a good counterexample to historically uninformed perspectives that view privacy as a contemporary construct.

carissaveliz.substack.comSaid 12 Oct 2026This on korrents

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21 October

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From one piece Why You Shouldn’t Record Public Speakers 3 beliefs · carissaveliz.substack.com

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Surveillance has been normalized to the point that important conversations are not being had.

privacy

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I worry that we are not having many important conversations that need to be had because we have normalized surveillance to such an extent that it’s almost become the default.

Why You Shouldn’t Record Public Speakerscarissaveliz.substack.com
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It is a fallacy that anything happening in the public domain is fair game to film.

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it’s a fallacy to think that anything that happens in the public domain is fair game to film

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A speaker does not consent to being filmed just by giving a talk.

Their words

A person doesn’t consent to being filmed by being a speaker, so you are in fact filming someone without their consent (unless you’ve asked them beforehand, naturally).

Why You Shouldn’t Record Public Speakerscarissaveliz.substack.com

12 October

Carissa VélizKorrents 12 Oct

From one piece Stop Messing With My Language, AI. 3 beliefs · carissaveliz.substack.com

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To steer our culture we must remain in command of language.

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To be the captains of the ship of our culture, we must remain in command of language, because that’s where much of culture resides.

Stop Messing With My Language, AI.carissaveliz.substack.com
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Automatic AI translation is an imposition that predicts what people want instead of asking them.

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AI making automatic translations is a good example of much of how we’re doing it wrong: it assumes (or predicts) that people can’t speak more than one language, and it’s an imposition; it tries to predict what I want instead of asking me.

Stop Messing With My Language, AI.carissaveliz.substack.com
korrents.com
Privacy is not a contemporary construct.

privacy

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Two ideals come up time and again that caught my attention: the value of freedom, and of privacy, the latter being a good counterexample to historically uninformed perspectives that view privacy as a contemporary construct.

Stop Messing With My Language, AI.carissaveliz.substack.com

27 September

Carissa VélizKorrents 27 Sept

korrents.com
The better a book is, the less a podcast about it can give you.

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But for all the virtues of podcasts, they are nothing like books, and when you listen to a podcast about a book, the better the book, the less you get from the podcast.

carissaveliz.substack.com

15 September

Carissa VélizKorrents 15 Sept

From one piece The Future Doesn’t Get Predicted — It Gets Produced 3 beliefs · carissaveliz.substack.com

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Culture is more powerful than law and technology together.

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One, culture is more powerful than law and tech together. If our culture rejects spy glasses there’s no way they can thrive.

carissaveliz.substack.com
korrents.com
The question is not how dangerous AI is but how dangerous the people and companies producing and using it are.

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the question is not how dangerous AI is but how dangerous the people and companies producing and using AI are. Algorithms are not moral agents, only human beings are moral agents.

carissaveliz.substack.com
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Predictions are never facts; more often than not they are delusional musings or power plays.

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And predictions, by definition, are never facts. Facts belong to the present and the past. At best, predictions are educated guesses, but more often than not they are delusional musings or power plays in disguise.

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13 May

Carissa VélizRecommends 13 May

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The Origins of Totalitarianism

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Though published in 1951 and focused on the rise of Nazism and Stalinism, The Origins of Totalitarianism is extremely relevant today and to some degree prophetic.

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The Black Swan

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The final book is The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

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30 November 2022

Carissa VélizRecommends 30 Nov 2022

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Zed

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It’s called Zed and it’s by Joanna Kavenna.

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Beliefs

Korrents What they believe 10 beliefs — each backed by an exact quote.
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  A person doesn’t consent to being filmed by being a speaker, so you are in fact filming someone without their consent (unless you’ve asked them beforehand, naturally).
  
  Why You Shouldn’t Record Public Speakers Said 21 Oct 2026
  
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- It is a fallacy that anything happening in the public domain is fair game to film.
  
  it’s a fallacy to think that anything that happens in the public domain is fair game to film
  
  Why You Shouldn’t Record Public Speakers Said 21 Oct 2026
  
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- Surveillance has been normalized to the point that important conversations are not being had.
  
  I worry that we are not having many important conversations that need to be had because we have normalized surveillance to such an extent that it’s almost become the default.
  
  Why You Shouldn’t Record Public Speakers Said 21 Oct 2026
  
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Privacy is not a contemporary construct.

Two ideals come up time and again that caught my attention: the value of freedom, and of privacy, the latter being a good counterexample to historically uninformed perspectives that view privacy as a contemporary construct.

Stop Messing With My Language, AI. Said 12 Oct 2026

Full record — everyone who holds this →

privacy

Automatic AI translation is an imposition that predicts what people want instead of asking them.

AI making automatic translations is a good example of much of how we’re doing it wrong: it assumes (or predicts) that people can’t speak more than one language, and it’s an imposition; it tries to predict what I want instead of asking me.

Stop Messing With My Language, AI. Said 12 Oct 2026

Full record — everyone who holds this →

To steer our culture we must remain in command of language.

To be the captains of the ship of our culture, we must remain in command of language, because that’s where much of culture resides.

Stop Messing With My Language, AI. Said 12 Oct 2026

Full record — everyone who holds this →

The better a book is, the less a podcast about it can give you.

But for all the virtues of podcasts, they are nothing like books, and when you listen to a podcast about a book, the better the book, the less you get from the podcast.

The Better the Book, the Less You Can Get from the Podcast Said 27 Sept 2026

Full record — everyone who holds this →

Predictions are never facts; more often than not they are delusional musings or power plays.

And predictions, by definition, are never facts. Facts belong to the present and the past. At best, predictions are educated guesses, but more often than not they are delusional musings or power plays in disguise.

The Future Doesn’t Get Predicted — It Gets Produced Said 15 Sept 2026

Full record — everyone who holds this →

The question is not how dangerous AI is but how dangerous the people and companies producing and using it are.

the question is not how dangerous AI is but how dangerous the people and companies producing and using AI are. Algorithms are not moral agents, only human beings are moral agents.

The Future Doesn’t Get Predicted — It Gets Produced Said 15 Sept 2026

Full record — everyone who holds this →

Culture is more powerful than law and technology together.

One, culture is more powerful than law and tech together. If our culture rejects spy glasses there’s no way they can thrive.

The Future Doesn’t Get Predicted — It Gets Produced Said 15 Sept 2026

Full record — everyone who holds this →
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  The final book is The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
  
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- Recommends The Origins of Totalitarianism 13 May 2026
  
  Though published in 1951 and focused on the rise of Nazism and Stalinism, The Origins of Totalitarianism is extremely relevant today and to some degree prophetic.
  
  fivebooks.com 13 May 2026
  
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- Recommends Zed 30 Nov 2022
  
  It’s called Zed and it’s by Joanna Kavenna.
  
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