The Old Way: Exploring Humanity‘s Origins
In preparing for my trip to Namibia, I came across a really interesting book, The Old Way: A Story of the First People by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas. It tells the story of the San or Bushmen, the oldest native inhabitants …
From What Is to What If
I’ve been part of a book club for non-fiction for a while now, and the group wanted to read more books with a positive message. So I suggested From What Is to What If by Rob Hopkins, and finally got …
Gesellschaftliche Herausforderungen der Digitalisierung
Ich unterrichte für unseren M.A. Digitale Transformation einen Kurs namens "Seminar Gesellschaftliche Herausforderungen der Digitalisierung", der (mir zumindest) viel Spaß macht. Hier haben die Studis die Aufgabe, eine Seminararbeit zu einem vorgegebenen Thema zu schreiben oder selbst eines zu wählen. …
How is your digital mindset?
Digital firms have quietly gone about setting their own rules for how businesses should be run (see e.g. How Google Works by Schmidt & Rosenberg, 2014) – a good few of those now apply to organizations way beyond the digital …
A Critical Stance on AI
I was invited to give a keynote at the iSChannel 20th Anniversary celebration at my old university, The London School of Economics and Political Sciences, last week. Here's my written version of the talk. It’s great to be here today! …
„Künstliche Intelligenz und der neue Faschismus“
Elon Musk und Donald Trump kündigen massenhaft Verwaltungsmitarbeitern, um einen KI-Staat zu errichten. Gleichzeitig dreht sich ein Großteil des öffentlichen Diskurses in Deutschland nur um die Chancen der KI, die man nutzen müsse, um nicht (z.B. gegenüber China) ins Hintertreffen …
All LLMs hallucinate – Here’s how you can still trust them
Hallucinations in Large Language Models (LLM) like ChatGPT are here to stay, as recently confirmed by an OpenAI blogpost. But how do they affect users' trust and the way users interact with LLMs? In a recent paper (Ryser et al. …
Will we all own autonomous cars soon?
The future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed. Autonomous driving has been the next big thing for at least 10 years, and by now, there are successful implementations in several places. But how will it play out in …
Preprint: Wie kann die digitale Transformation Predictive Maintenance unterstützen?
Kollegen von mir haben einen Sammelband zum Thema "Predictive Maintenance" veröffentlicht, und ich freue mich, dass mein Beitrag angenommen wurde. Über die Ideen darin habe ich schon geschrieben – hier ist jetzt der Beitrag als Preprint: Preprint-Predictive Maintenance AllweinHerunterladen Allwein, …
Plurality: An open approach to democracy and technology
I spent a good few weeks reading and trying to grok a book, Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy, by E. Glen Weyl and Audrey Tang and their community. I knew about Audrey Tang as she has been …