Per Axbom

Here's Per Axbom's "AI Hammer". Comes in handy for smashing people's tendency to call "AI" a "tool". Source: axbom.com/hammer-ai/

Thanks for sharing. Reminds me I should update the post with a couple more from recent years.

This is why the phrase comes up in so many of the things I've written about AI.

AI does three main things:

1) dismantle the institutions necessary for democratic society to thrive

2) transfer wealth upwards

3) create the permission structure for (1) and (2)

The AI age is the "age of no consent" "Inevitability" means design decisions are no longer informed by user needs; now they are unilaterally imposed. The users are the ones being designed.

Users hate AI. So tech made it mandatory. Even if you don't use it, it pollutes what you read and how systems make decisions. The computer's hallucinated word is final.

And it needs all of your data to do it.

In the age of no consent, UX exists to normalized complete acquiescence to surveillance:

Var tredje man i Gen Z tycker att kvinnan ska lyda Många män ur Gen Z tycker att kvinnan alltid ska lyda sin man och att han alltid ska ha sista ordet vid viktiga beslut.

När ni läser om den här undersökningen så ta fasta på sista meningen i artikeln: Bara 4 % av män i Sverige tycker att kvinnan alltid ska lyda sin man, vilket är lägst av alla undersökta länder.

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Axbom's Playing Cards Axbom's cards provides you with collections of topics, challenges and exercises to support better decision-making in digital development. Use these interactive card decks for free in work meetings and...

I added ’Elements of AI Ethics’ as a card deck on my interactive playing cards website. Now there are three decks you can play around with for critical thinking and workshop exercises.

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'Legal & ethical frameworks become analytically and normatively void when the political system that […] employs such powerful technologies doesn't respect human rights or desired values in the first place. There is no current effective global regulation on AI, in neither civil nor military domains.'

Excellent!

Screenshot from video with a floating head (Per Axbom) on top of the interactive playings cards website.

New and free: Interactive playing cards for critical thinking.

On this 5-year anniversary of publishing The Elements of Digital Ethics I'm releasing the elements as interactive playing cards on a website – and it's free to use for all.

Feature intro video:
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Literally, at work this morning:

Clinician: Patient should stop medication A, but must keep taking medication B.

AI VR transcription of this: Patient should stop taking medication B.

Seriously NEVER LET A DOCTOR USE AI FOR YOUR APPOINTMENTS. NEVER. UNDER ANY FUCKING CIRCUMSTANCES.

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Are you a developer making use of Google Fonts? Don't.

You could try Bunny Fonts.

"Easily integrate Bunny Fonts into your website with a Google Fonts drop-in compatible API. But without the tracking!"

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Frog exclaims to Toad that he is happy. From "Alone" In *Days with Frog and Toad*

“But Toad,” said Frog, “I AM happy. I am very happy. This morning when I woke up, I felt good because the sun was shining. I felt good because I was a frog. And I felt good because I have you for a friend. I wanted to be alone. I wanted to think about how fine everything is.”

The Elements of Digital Ethics A chart to help guide moral considerations in the tech space.

It's been five years since I published The Elements of Digital Ethics. Meanwhile the tech industry has doubled down on escalating harm in all areas. 😬

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The work of creation in the age of AI | Andrew Perfors In which I become an old man yelling futilely at the clouds

Best essay on modern, digital life I think I've read. ht to @cgruenloh.bsky.social

by @perfors.net

It's from February 2024, but it's forever relevant.

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Resisting Algorithms: Human Rights in the Age of Platforms In a digital age, where content creators are booming, shaping culture, influencing politics, and building entire livelihoods online, we find ourselves in a world governed by algorithms we didn’t…

So what does it mean to resist? From viral content that defies the odds, to artists and activists who quietly tweak the system to stay visible, today we explore the subtle and strategic ways resistance unfolds in online spaces.

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Tack Nikke, betyder mycket att du säger det. Och du har säkert noterat att jag har genomgått något liknande. Även om jag såklart fortfarande älskar teknik. 😁

Metas glasögon blottlägger Sveriges handfallenhet inför digitala övergrepp SvD och GP:s färska reportage berättar hur inspelningar från Metas "smarta" glasögon hamnar hos innehållsmoderatorer i Kenya och omfattar allt från toabesök och sex till kreditkortsuppgifter. Säkert ...

Oavbruten inspelning i omklädningsrummet, i klassrummet, på lönesamtalet, i baren på konferensen, på toa, i sängen. Eller när en främling antastar och trakasserar dig för att skapa så kallad ‘content’ till sin influencer-kanal på din bekostnad.

Vi kan inte vara förvånade.

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Vad roligt att du också hittat den! 😁

”Vardagsrum och nakna kroppar – vi ser allt” Bankuppgifter, sex och nakna människor som tycks omedvetna om att de spelas in. Bakom Metas nya smarta glasögon finns en dold arbetsstyrka som känner olust av att se in i andras privatliv.

Metas AI-glasögon skickar integritetskänsliga inspelningar av vardagsliv till Kenya, där lågavlönade personer sitter dagarna i ända och märker upp vad de ser så att AI-systemen kan bli smartare. Sådant mörker av teknikdystopi och neokolonialism.

S13 E02: Epstein Files & Twitter: 2/22/26: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Watch "S13 E02: Epstein Files & Twitter: 2/22/26: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" with enhanced privacy protection - no personalized ads or tracking.

John Oliver did a terrific job on Last Week Tonight of explaining what Twitter has become, how dangerous it is, and what type of platform you are supporting if you participate on it.

This url shows the Twitter segment of the show, ad-free:

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Meta Director of AI Safety Allows AI Agent to Accidentally Delete Her Inbox Meta Superintelligence Labs’ director of alignment called it a “rookie mistake.”

I'm blown away by what supposedly well-educated people are giving completely unpredictable software unlimited access to.

And it bears repeating: this is the type of unlimited access the techbros are seriously advocating for to accomplish the agentic assistance they believe everyone wants.

Come explore how ethics unlocks innovation – see you at UX Sweden April 23. Photo of a smiling Per Axbom standing with arms crossed in a forest. Per is a balding man with a short beard wearing a blue sweater on top of a red dress shirt.

Move fast and break things or Move intently and with love. Which do you believe is more rewarding?

I get to share how development projects in the digital space can be carried out with compassion. It involves questioning the problem and questioning our own beliefs.

Online or on-site: per.ax/uxswe

The utterance of "A.I.'s inevitability" is one of the most stark pure performatives I've seen in my time working in higher ed. Every time it is uttered, it is clearly not reporting a fact about the world but instead actively trying to create the reality it narrates. We can and must refuse.

Bris-kampanj slarvar med barnens personliga uppgifter Jag hamnar i ett virrvarr av länkar när jag skannar QR-koden i Bris kampanj på mjölkpaketen – och häpnar över den burdusa hanteringen. Är den ens laglig?

Hehe, scammers… och Bris. Bra poäng.

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Ditt inlägg gav inspiration till att äntligen få ur mig ett blogginlägg med det här budskapet. Tack för det Richie!

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Yesterday Cory Doctorow argued that refusal to use LLMs was mere "neoliberal purity culture". I think his argument is a strawman, doesn't align with his own actions and delegitimizes important political actions we need to make in order to build a better cyberphysical world.

The Spectacular Lies of Maps – keynote companion page All the slides, videos, links and references from my closing keynote. Plus more reading tips, as well as podcasts and books for deep-dives.

Excellent to hear. Last summer I also did a talk on the world map in Manchester. My first keynote where I was specifically asked to talk about maps.

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Att peka ut en enskild utländsk plattform som informationskälla vid teknikstrul skapar ett ansvarslöst beroende. Det är raka motsatsen till suveränitet och motståndskraft. Om plattformen stänger, blockerar, censurerar, köps upp eller ändrar sina villkor kan myndigheten plötsligt tappa kanalen.