Ariel Guersenzvaig

@interacciones

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

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Ariel Guersenzvaig@interacciones· 27d

🙌 …and two of my daughters were born in Spain

Man wearing the Argentina football jersey

Ariel Guersenzvaig@interacciones· Jul 6

FIFA has been for decades nothing but a corrupt clique that partnered with criminals and dictators to steal football from us. Only for power and money. But we are fans and love this precious sport so much that every four years we still put up with their crap. It's getting more difficult every time.

Havelange and Videla in a box at a stadium.

Ariel Guersenzvaig@interacciones· Jul 4

Part of a long history of arrogance. I remember seeing De Boer on live Dutch TV saying that “Turkey is a modest team” after losing to them in the mid-90s. Hiddink called them then “a mediocre opponent.” www.volkskrant.nl/sport/laat-c...:

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...

Ariel Guersenzvaig@interacciones· Jul 4

Same with the Spanish channel I’m paying to watch the FIFA World Cup in Spain. They can’t even properly spell the country names… in Spanish!

Picture of a TV chart with flags and misspelled country names GRUPO A
MÉJICO
SURAFRICA
REPÚBLICA DE KOREA
CHEQUIA
FIFA WORLD CUP 2026

Ariel Guersenzvaig@interacciones· Jul 3

I will wear my new tshirt when I read this.

Black tshirt with text “AGAINST MODERN FOOTBALL” with ball and laurel wreath around it.

Ariel Guersenzvaig@interacciones· Jul 3

More things to consider

Tweet with a picture of Lamine Yamal. He’s wearing a thin hair band with the words “EGO YAMAL”.

Ariel Guersenzvaig@interacciones· Jun 22

There’s a pattern?

Screenshot from npr. Headline: Henry Kissinger, controversial diplomat and foreign policy scholar, dies at 100

NOVEMBER 29, 20239:23 PM ET. Picture of him.

Ariel Guersenzvaig@interacciones· Jun 17

Muy bueno esto de Caparrós sobre el VAR, a propósito de los goles anulados en el Argentina-Argelia. elpais.com/deportes/mun...

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.

Ariel Guersenzvaig@interacciones· Jun 11

Los que son malos son los TVE que no se saben los nombres de los países

Ariel Guersenzvaig@interacciones· Jun 9

We don’t usually see each others headers. Here’s mine. Quote post with yours (if you feel like it)

Shabby wall with graffiti saying “it gets worse”.

Ariel Guersenzvaig@interacciones· Jun 6

I made this awhile ago

Ariel Guersenzvaig@interacciones· Jun 5

By praising the genocidal Dutch East India Company (VOC in Dutch) and “capitalism’s full potential,” never before has an AI booster made the neocolonialist, exploitative nature of the AI industry as explicitly clear as Milei does in his FT article. www.ft.com/content/f930...

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

Ariel Guersenzvaig@interacciones· Jun 4

Se ha muerto la gran Marjane Satrapi, historietista iraní, autora de “Persépolis”, entre otras obras. Si tienen criaturas, yo les recomiendo “Ajdar”, un libro precioso que mis hijas y yo hemos leído cientos de veces. elpais.com/cultura/2026...

Cubierta del libro Ajdar, de Marjane Satrapi. Contiene un dibujo de un dragón sonriente enrollado sobre sí mismo.

Ariel Guersenzvaig@interacciones· May 30

Watching the Champions League final but actually waiting for the penalty kicks 🫠

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.

Ariel Guersenzvaig@interacciones· May 22

ICYI "When Responsibility Enables Ethics Washing: Responsible Realism as a Critical Lens for Probing Institutional Recommendations for the Use of AI in Higher Education" zenodo.org/records/1934...

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.

Ariel Guersenzvaig@interacciones· Mar 15

Melinda Cooper’s essay on the Epstein household and its political economy contains this on Marx and Varoufakis 🎯 www.equator.org/articles/eps...

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.

Ariel Guersenzvaig@interacciones· Mar 10

El grupo donde comentamos mientras escribíamos 🥲

Ariel Guersenzvaig@interacciones· Mar 2

And they cite Mollick, “the AI expert and bestselling author of Co-Intelligence,” not once, not twice, but thrice. The same guy who believes that “we have never built a generally applicable technology that can boost our intelligence”…

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.

Ariel Guersenzvaig@interacciones· Mar 1

I’m not sure I’m actually happy you have, because N&T has become my default mental model for approaching current reality…

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.

Ariel Guersenzvaig@interacciones· Feb 22

Can adding boiling water to a bowl of instant Knorr Carbonara Pasta teach students to cook better?

Picture of a bowl of Instant Knorr Carbonara Pasta.

Ariel Guersenzvaig@interacciones· Feb 21

Kombucha girl meme:
First image, disgusted: Artificial colors in food
Second image, approving: children in concentration camps

Ariel Guersenzvaig@interacciones· Feb 18

…and before that, redefining technology to mean machinery developed by men.

Cover of “Making technology masculine” by Ruth Oldenziel.

Ariel Guersenzvaig@interacciones· Feb 18

We wrote something along these lines with @javisamo.bsky.social in our AI&Society paper about “AI assistants” link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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.

Ariel Guersenzvaig@interacciones· Feb 15

¿Qué es esta bazofia que le hace el juego a los fascistas? España apretada… País que se satura… Menciones a la población extranjera…. Cada día estoy más cerca de cancelar mi suscripción a @elpais.com

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.

Ariel Guersenzvaig@interacciones· Feb 11

This is callousness disguised as concern for mental well-being. Absolutely sociopathic. hbr.org/2026/03/why-...

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.

Screenshot of the Summary. As generative Al begins to handle more cognitive, creative, and interpersonal tasks, many employees perceive it to be a threat to their competence, autonomy, and sense of belonging at work. These psychological disruptions are producing widespread resistance, disengagement, and even covert opposition to Al initiatives. The challenge for leaders is not just technical integration but emotional and social adaptation. To meet that challenge, the authors propose the AWARE framework, which helps leaders address the psychological needs of employees: acknowledge employee concerns, watch for adaptive and maladaptive coping behaviors, align support systems with psychological needs, redesign workflows around human-Al synergies, and empower workers through transparency and inclusion. Leaders that apply this framework can ensure that gen Al tools enhance-rather than erode-workers' motivation and
commitment.

Ariel Guersenzvaig@interacciones· Feb 9

Sobre esto de salir en los medios a vender tu empresa. Hace un par de semanas en la revista dominical 🤷🏽‍♂️

Ariel Guersenzvaig@interacciones· Feb 8

Mi header igual

Ariel Guersenzvaig@interacciones· Feb 7

There are caveats about AI making doctors more efficient, but the screenwriters of “The Pitt” get the rest quite right. (s02e05)

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.

Ariel Guersenzvaig@interacciones· Feb 4

This one is a new flavour: warning OTHERS to be careful about believing that machines are conscious while YOU YOURSELF fall for a very similar trap.

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.

Ariel Guersenzvaig@interacciones· Feb 3

This was their plan all along: