Ariel Guersenzvaig

@interacciones.org

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Philosopher of technology. Asst prof. Thinks and writes about how we shape things and are shaped by them. Book: 'The Goods of Design: Professional Ethics for Designers' (Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2022). Foreigner in Barcelona. interacciones.org

Man wearing the Argentina football jersey
Havelange and Videla in a box at a stadium.
Foto de videla y havelange
Screenshot from search emgine. Text: V de Volkskrant https://www.volkskrant.nl : Laat Cruijff Oranje naar Frankrijk brengen 'Een simpele ploeg', noemde Ronald de Boer de Turken. En ook Hiddink vond het maar een 'matige' tegenstander. Gebrek aan respect en zelfoverschatti...
Picture of a TV chart with flags and misspelled country names GRUPO A MÉJICO SURAFRICA REPÚBLICA DE KOREA CHEQUIA FIFA WORLD CUP 2026
Black tshirt with text “AGAINST MODERN FOOTBALL” with ball and laurel wreath around it.
Tweet with a picture of Lamine Yamal. He’s wearing a thin hair band with the words “EGO YAMAL”.
Screenshot from npr. Headline: Henry Kissinger, controversial diplomat and foreign policy scholar, dies at 100 NOVEMBER 29, 20239:23 PM ET. Picture of him.
El encuentro había empezado una hora antes como un desencuentro entre los hombres y las máquinas. A los siete minutos los hombres ya habían hecho dos goles y las máquinas habían dicho que no: el VAR había dicho que no por un hombro de más, un tobillo de menos. Es injusto: el offside debería serlo cuando la vista de un humano alcanza para verlo, cuando el delantero que lo comete puede verlo; la máquina debería aprender a mirar como humana, precaria, aproximada.
Shabby wall with graffiti saying “it gets worse”.
Screenshot of the Financial Times includes illustration of an Argentinian flag and text: FINANCIAL TIMES Opinion Artificial intelligence Javier Milei: Argentina invites AI to free itself On March 201602, the founding of the Dutch East India Company gave the world the limited liability company - and unleashed capitalism's full potential. Only when law placed a ceiling on risk did capital deploy with genuine force. The industrial revolution ignited some years later was made complete not by engineering, but by Dutch corporate law. The machine and the
Cubierta del libro Ajdar, de Marjane Satrapi. Contiene un dibujo de un dragón sonriente enrollado sobre sí mismo.
Screenshot of Google AI dialogue. Prompt: how many days of the week have a football penalty in them? Answer: Three days of the week contain the letters for "penalty" (p-e-n-a-l-t-y): • Tusesday • Wednesday • Saturday None of the names of the days of the week contain the exact sequence of letters to spell "penalty" as a standalone word. However, if you are looking for which days contain the individual letters p, e, n, a, I, t, and y within their names, the breakdown is as follows: • Thursday, Tuesday, and Saturday contain the letter • Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday contain the letter a. • Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday contain the letter d.
We reject the idea of technological determinism, but we are wary of corporate strategies promoting early lock-in because, as technologies become widespread, they gain momentum (Hughes 1994), and when this happens, technology reversal becomes more difficult, not because it is an autonomous force, but because infrastructure, companies and institutions, regulations, the media, professions, markets, and our very own social and individual habits have coalesced around it. Think of cars. Institutionally endorsed adoption can build a momentum that later makes technologies hard to undo. This is not to say that reversals are impossible; they aren't, as shown, among other cases, by the phasing out of asbestos as insulation material in construction and ship building (see e.g., Council EU 2023; USEPA 2024). Reversals can and do happen, but it is indisputable that it would have been easier and far less tragic if the warnings about the extremely harmful effects associated with asbestos, known since the end of the 19th century (Frank and Van Zandwijk 2023), had been taken into account and incorporated in regulation and professional best practices before its use and irreversible harms started to grow exponentially in the 1950s. We believe we find ourselves at a similar juncture now with Al in higher education.
This form of domestic service is tacitly ruled over by something akin to 'master and servant' laws - a form of employment that once granted masters virtual dominion over their private sphere of government and punished workers with criminal sanctions such as in-house arrest, imprisonment, or even corporal punishment. Given the origins of 'master and servant' laws in medieval England, it would be easy to identify this development as a return to feudalism - an increasingly popular reading of the present conjuncture, as exemplified by the recent work of Yanis Varoufakis. The argument owes much to Marx, who implied that personal domestic service would become obsolete as feudal relations gave way to the free labour contract. But recall that, contrary to Marx's predictions, domestic service expanded in the late-nineteenth century, not in spite of but because of the growing concentration of industrial and financial wealth. Moreover, 'master and servant' relations endured well into the 20th century and have made a comeback in recent decades, if not in formal legal arrangements then at least de facto.
We have invented technologies, from axes to helicopters, that boost our physical capabilities; and others, like spreadsheets, that automate complex tasks; but we have never built a generally applicable technology that can boost our intelligence.
Screenshot of Companion’s Einstein landing page with the text: Meet Einstein Einstein is an Al with a computer. He logs into Canvas every day, watches lectures, reads essays, writes papers, participates in discussions, and submits your homework — automatically.
Picture of a bowl of Instant Knorr Carbonara Pasta.
Kombucha girl meme: First image, disgusted: Artificial colors in food Second image, approving: children in concentration camps
Cover of “Making technology masculine” by Ruth Oldenziel.
Conducting bibliographical research exceeds instrumental as it enables us to develop our own research ideas, thus increasing our capacity for critical thinking and creativity, which have intrinsic value. Good bibliographical research situates our work and positions us within an academic tradition, which can and does affect our identity and the values and beliefs we adopt as researchers and as individuals. Doing bibliographical research is part of the process of constructing a conceptual and theoretical scaffold for our own thinking about the topics we are researching. These scaffolds, in turn, are part of dialogical agreements and disputes over vocabularies, traditions, and methods with those that preceded us. A literature review is a very sophisticated way of deliberation.
Captura del diario El País. La España apretada de los casi 50 millones de habitantes AMANDA MARS / DANIELE GRASSO (GRÁFICOS) | Madrid La concentración demográfica, el crecimiento económico y el turismo tiran de las costuras del país 'Un país que se satura', por Raymond Torres Aglomeraciones en la estación de metro de Plaza Cataluña, en Barcelona. GIANLUCA BATTISTA Foto de una multitud de personas entrando y saliendo de un tren.
Screenshot from hbr: Managing People Headline: Why Gen AI Feels So Threatening to Workers by Erik Hermann, Stefano Puntoni and Carey K. Morewedge From the Magazine (March-April 2026) Picture of a person holding a smartphone.
5 frames depicting medical staff in scrubs working at computers. Captions per frame: Frame 1: Sure, AI will make doctors more efficient Frame 2: but hospitals will expect us to treat more patients Frame 3: without any extra pay, of course Frame 4: all the while eliminating staff positions Frame 5: for attending and residents.
Yuval Noah Harari Historian; A.I. isn't a tool entirely under human control — it is an agent that can make decisions and invent ideas by itself. While I don't think A.I. Will become conscious in the near future, it is highly likely these models will be able to simulate consciousness very effectively, causing a significant percentage of humanity to believe they are conscious.
Post on x: Sam Altman @sama these tools will help us be more productive (can't wait to spend less time doing email!), healthier (AI medical advisors for people who can’t afford care), smarter (students using ChatGPT to learn), and more entertained (AI memes lolol). 2:00 AM · Feb 19, 2023 · 2.3M Views
Book cover: “Fighting traffic: the dawn of the motor age in the American city” by Peter D. Norton. The cover features a congested street in the late 1920s-1930s (I guess).
Captura artículo: CincoDías Mercados De regalo de Reyes un fondo de inversión: por qué invertir desde pequeños marca la diferencia de mayores La inversión a largo plazo favorece el efecto del interés compuesto que permite cada año generar ganancias sobre las ganancias
There are deeper questions about the use of technology that are raised less frequently than “Does it work?” We mean questions such as “What is it for?” and “Is it good?” We claim no originality in this respect; we reintroduce the questions that Joseph Weizenbaum (1972, 611) posed to fellow computer scientists more than 50 years ago in his essay on the side effects of computers. The latter questions are not only less frequent but have primacy over those about effectiveness. It is our contention that we cannot meaningfully answer the question of whether something works without also addressing the latter questions about ends and moral goodness.
Book cover of “Design Philosophy after the Technology Turn”. Edited by Secomandi and Verbeek. Illustrated by a depiction of an integrated circuit.
Peter Capaldi yelling “even fucking cyclists hate fucking cyclists”.
Simple arithmetical criteria for irreducibility of polynomials with integer coefficients Natalio H Guersenzvaig Integers: Annual Volume 2013 2013, 1, 2014 A simultaneous generalization of well-known arithmetical criteria for irreducibility in Q [X] of polynomials in Z [X], including a classical result of G. Pólya and G. Szegö, will be achieved via a general framework for that family of irreducibility criteria. A further generalization, which for any f (X)∈ Z [X] provides an arithmetical function whose values are upper bounds for the number of irreducible factors of f (X) in Q [X], will also be established.
Tweet by Ethan Mollick: A focus on AGI (whatever it is) obscures the fact that we have increasing evidence from early results like GDPval that today's Al models are good enough to create major transformations over 5-10 years as companies figure out how to deploy them and integrate them into processes. Images include a chart and a “paper” by OpenAI staff.
The only limitation to what the public-relations man does comes when he discovers that the same people who perhaps can be "manipulated" to buy a certain kind of soap cannot be manipulated-though, of course, they can be forced by terror-to "buy" opinions and political views. Therefore the psychological premise of human manipu-lability has become one of the chief wares that are sold on the market of common and learned opinion. But such doctrines do not change the way people form opinions or prevent them from acting according to their own lights. The only method short of terror to have real influence on their conduct is still the old carrot-and-stick approach. It is not surprising that the recent generation of intellectuals, who grew up in the insane atmosphere of rampant advertising and were taught that half of politics is image-making" and the other half the art of making people believe in the imagery, should almost automatically fall back on the older adages of carrot and stick whenever the situation becomes too serious for "theory." To them, the greatest disappointment in the Vietnam adventure should have been the discovery that there are people with whom carrot-and-stick methods do not work either.
Kombucha girl meme. Upper text: Bombing data centers to prevent the "superintelligence". Lower text: Bombing data centers to prevent companies from sending us over the climate cliff.
the ambiguity that the term implies. We have invented technologies, from axes to helicopters, that boost our physical capabilities; and others, like preadsheets, that automate complex tasks; but (start highlight) we have never built a generally applicable technology that can boost our intelligence. (End highlight) Now humans have access to a tool that can emute how
2 maps of the world with the text "Tell me where you are from using only 2 words"
Screen capture of Word’s”pick up where you left off” feature
Capturas de dos artículos de Xavier Ferras: 1) Las oportunidades de la IA https://www.lavanguardia.com/dinero/20240303/9532220/inteligencia-artificial-ciencia-datos-revolucion-informacion.amp.html y 2) El mundo en el 2060 https://www.lavanguardia.com/dinero/20250914/11053087/mundo-2060.html
Review "The most important book of the decade. This captivating page-turner, from two of today's clearest thinkers, reveals that the competition to build smarter-than-human machines isn't an arms race but a suicide race, fueled by wishful thinking."—Max Tegmark, author of Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Al
Pictures of a pirate ship amusement ride and a larger close-up picture of its base, secured with rusty nails on worn wooden planks.
Screen capture of article “The Cognitive Bias That Makes Us Panic About Coronavirus” 28 Feb 2020 by Cass R. Sunstein
Yellow lifted pick up truck
Destacado de un diario: “”Al-bus” Ahora es el momento de crear el gran Airbus de la electrónica, una especialización coordinada y una cadena de valor europea”
The rapid emergence of sophisticated models of artificial intelligence has enormous implications for the future of the human race. If they are harnessed for good, they could liberate humans from hard toil, end material scarcity, and facilitate enormous breakthroughs in areas from medicine to the arts. If they are harnessed for ill, they could lead to mass immiseration, cause war or pestilence on an unprecedented scale, or even make obsolete the human race.
The rapid emergence of sophisticated models of artificial intelligence has enormous implications for the future of the human race. If they are harnessed for good, they could liberate humans from hard toil, end material scarcity, and facilitate enormous breakthroughs in areas from medicine to the arts. If they are harnessed for ill, they could lead to mass immiseration, cause war or pestilence on an unprecedented scale, or even make obsolete the human race.
In addition to the concerns of individual managers there is a collective phenomenon at work as well, a sort of herd instinct, in which they all get caught up together. It's something like a run on a bank or the stock market. Someone starts it and before long everyone is doing it out of desperation. Managers feel they must automate because "everyone's doing it," out of fear that they will be undone by more up-to-date competitors (a paranoia encouraged by equipment ven-dors). There is this vague belief that the drive to automate is inevita-ble, unavoidable, and this belief becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy. In the stampede, meanwhile, there is very little sober analysis of costs and benefits. "Everybody and his brother believes that FMS [flexible manufacturing systems] is the only way to fly," the trade magazine Iron Age reported. "Yet, there isn't a single FMS in the U.S. that operates the way it was intended to." One Boston University business school professor told the Wall Street Journal, "Companies are buying equipment helter skelter without thinking about how they want to use it.'26 In short, this trance that we are all in— the feeling that there is some inevitable force called technological progress and you have to hop on or get run over — they're in it too. This ideology, as we now see, begs all of the questions and avoids all of the answers about the reality of technological progress. Leaving aside the human and social dimension, the actual political, cultural, and psychological factors at work, the ideology allows for no serious scrutiny of actual motivations and real returns. Insofar as it does this, it serves a purpose— to camouflage, obscure, dignify, and ratify the actions of those in power.