"a term popularized by Palantir" we are cooked

Assistant Professor Annette Zimmermann, Yale University, Yale Political Theory Workshop 2026, Democratizing Ai, democratic participation and AI, democratically legitimate AI, political philosophy of AI

This Wed I’ll be talking about #democratizingAI at the @yale.edu Political Theory Workshop! What an honor to be back (though sadly on Zoom this time) 10 years after first setting foot on this campus as a visiting student & deepening my resolve to dedicate myself to democratic theory. #polphilofAI

Anthropic every damn day

Democratizing AI Democratizing AI argues that AI deployment is a political act requiring democratic control. Zimmermann offers a practical playbook for reclaiming public power f

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Colloquium in Law, Philosophy & Political Theory Spring Semester 2026 All sessions for Spring 2026 will be held in person in Room 132, Law Building, on Fridays from 12:10 pm-2:00 pm. Papers for upcoming talks should become available […]

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Professor Annette Zimmermann colloquium talk on Democratizing AI at UC Berkeley Colloquium in Law, Philosophy and Political Theory, political philosophy of AI

Really looking fwd to speaking about how & why to subject AI to more democratic control at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social Colloquium in Law, Philosophy & Political Theory on Fri! Thanks to @joshuacohen.bsky.social & David Singh Grewal for inviting me. #democratizingAI

Foto von Annette Zimmermann. Sie trägt offene, lange braune Haare und lächelt in die Kamera.

Visual mit der Aufschrift republica 26, darunter befindet sich ein Peace-Zeichen mit der Unterschrift Politik und Gesellschaft. Darunter steht in Großbuchstaben HOW TO FIGHT THE BROLIGARCHY BY DEMOCRATIZING AI – ANNETTE ZIMMERMANN. Am unteren Rand ist das Motto Never Gonna Give You Up zu lesen mit dem Veranstaltungsdatum 18.-20. Mai und dem Ort, der STATION Berlin.

Die Macht über KI konzentriert sich derzeit in den Händen weniger „Tech-Broligarchen“.

Die Forscherin und Philosophin Annette Zimmermann (@drzimmermann.bsky.social) spricht auf der #rp26 darüber, wie wir das gemeinsam ändern können, indem wir KI demokratisieren.

➡️ re-publica.com/de/news/rp26...

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In my book, I discuss this important issue in detail, amongst other things in conversation with Nadia Urbinati's absolutely brilliant essay in response to my philosophical view.

Reaching/un-rabbitholing that part of the population, and making a compelling case for why democracy is worth fighting for in the first place, is a central task in this area. Institutional change alone cannot accomplish that goal.

Big Tech oligarch’s discursive influence can lead people down an ideological rabbit hole that cannot simply be captured by familiar partisan political orientations, and that is hard to tackle from within bureaucratized party structures.

In this context, it's especially dangerous that a subset of the population still treats podcast monologues & antidemocratic manifestos penned by tech oligarchs essentially as aspirational lifestyle content…

eg if an attitude of undue deference to tech oligarchs continues to persist, and to those public officials that uncritically repeat corporate objectives—& if citizens fail to hold representatives accountable for neglecting the public interest when deciding how much power AI deployers can wield.

Creating more and better participation pathways for citizens to voice their preferences about different AI deployment decisions is crucial, of course. But those kinds of interventions will remain toothless if citizens routinely opt out of taking charge when they do have opportunities to do so…

One key insight from my book that this audience reaffirmed strongly: increasing democratic control over AI is a political mobilization problem even more than it is an institutional design problem.

Annette Zimmermann colloquium talk at Columbia University

Throwback to my colloquium talk at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social — such an honor to talk with such a brilliant audience about my book, which you can now [convince your university library] to pre-order!

Oooh I want to hear more about that!

Aw thank you Sameer! ✨

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This is co-authored with 3 of our brilliant grad students at the Uncertainty & AI group at UW: Andrew Zeppa, Srijan Pandey, and Kenneth Diao. Check out the full paper here: openreview.net/pdf?id=FjxyA...

Annette Zimmermann, philosophy of AI, AI ethics, neurips, democratizing AI, democratic AI, neural information processing systems, mexico city

Just arrived in Mexico City for NeurIPS’25! Presenting our position paper ‘Don’t Give UP on Democratizing AI for the Wrong Reasons’, synthesizing some interesting insights from my book. Fellow 🤖Philosophy of AI🤖 nerds in CDMX: dm me & let’s hang out!

Photo of the workshop participants at the Weizenbaum Institute, 17 October 2025

📢 Recap: The Workshop on Critical Theory of the Computational (16–17 Oct 2025, Weizenbaum Institute) brought 40 experts to explore how AI and digital systems shape society.
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Wie unterschiedlich gehen #EU & die #USA mit der Regulierung von #KI um? Am Mittwoch diskutieren @drzimmermann.bsky.social & @jonasfegert.bsky.social im #DigitalerSalon darüber, wie Technologien sich demokratisch gestalten lassen.

👉Ab 19 Uhr live am HIIG & im Stream: www.hiig.de/events/digit...

Who owns AI? On democratization, control and power relations A new home for all those who practice journalism, shape the public debate and thereby strengthen democracy. A media house for tomorrow. Here and in Berlin.

Event page: www.publix.de/en/events/wh...

Annette Zimmermann, Democratizing AI, Publix Berlin, political philosophy of AI, Milagros Miceli, Jonas Fegert

This coming Monday I’ll be discussing some core ideas from my book, Democratizing AI, with @milamiceli.bsky.social ( @dairinstitute.bsky.social @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social ) & @jonasfegert.bsky.social ( @kit.edu ) at Publix Berlin. Register here: pretix.eu/publix/wemge...

OZSW Dutch Research School of Philosophy 2025 annual conference poster Annette Zimmermann keynote Democratizing AI

Kicking off my summer research stay in Europe with a keynote lecture on my forthcoming book ‘Democratizing AI’ at the Annual Conference of the Dutch Research School of Philosophy (OZSW). Excited to see many familiar faces in Delft in a few days! #democratizingAI #philosophyofAI #AIethics

Bayesian Boot Camp

My awesome colleague Mike Titelbaum is organizing a ✨Bayesian Boot Camp✨ this summer. sites.google.com/view/bayesia... Apply by March 1!

Would love to see the syllabus once it’s done if you’re happy to share it ☺️

I like this paper by @azjacobs.bsky.social & hanna wallach arxiv.org/pdf/1912.05511