What Carissa Véliz thinks about privacy
Associate Professor at the Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford, and author of Privacy Is Power and Prophecy, who writes about privacy, AI and ethics.
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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Carissa Véliz has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingSurveillance has been normalized to the point that important conversations are not being had.
Their wordsI worry that we are not having many important conversations that need to be had because we have normalized surveillance to such an extent that it’s almost become the default.
↗Why You Shouldn’t Record Public Speakerscarissaveliz.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Our readingPrivacy is not a contemporary construct.
Their wordsTwo ideals come up time and again that caught my attention: the value of freedom, and of privacy, the latter being a good counterexample to historically uninformed perspectives that view privacy as a contemporary construct.
↗Stop Messing With My Language, AI.carissaveliz.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece