Kars Alfrink✓

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Talked AI infrastructure, speculation, and real utopias with students at Leiden today.
This was a guest lecture for the course AI in Society. I presented the argument from my position paper, People's Compute, and used the occasion to pilot some new material I am developing on speculative design and realism, with the working title Grounded Futures. The students were a thoughtful bunch and gave me a

3 views Talked AI infrastructure, speculation, and real utopias with students at Leiden today. This was a guest lecture for the course AI in Society. I presented the argument from my position paper, People's Compute, and used the occasion to pilot some new material I am developing on speculative design and realism, with the working title Grounded Futures. The students were a thoughtful bunch and gave me a

Amsterdam wanted a camera-equipped "scan bike" to spot things like illegally placed construction waste containers in public space. Unusually, the procurement tender required a year-long civic participation process, with a citizen panel shaping how the object-recognition tech would work.
The participation was explicitly built on Arnstein's ladder, aiming for its top rungs: co-deciding, not just con

2 views Amsterdam wanted a camera-equipped "scan bike" to spot things like illegally placed construction waste containers in public space. Unusually, the procurement tender required a year-long civic participation process, with a citizen panel shaping how the object-recognition tech would work. The participation was explicitly built on Arnstein's ladder, aiming for its top rungs: co-deciding, not just con

What better place to explore regenerative community computing than at Creative Coding Utrecht, home of artist Sunjoo Lee's electric garden?
Last Friday, Sunjoo Lee, Fieke Jansen, Lena Trotereau and I ran a second iteration of our workshop "From Soil to Servers." We had a diverse, thoughtful group of people come together to build small devices powered by microbial fuel cells, and to envision what

1 views What better place to explore regenerative community computing than at Creative Coding Utrecht, home of artist Sunjoo Lee's electric garden? Last Friday, Sunjoo Lee, Fieke Jansen, Lena Trotereau and I ran a second iteration of our workshop "From Soil to Servers." We had a diverse, thoughtful group of people come together to build small devices powered by microbial fuel cells, and to envision what

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Engagement vs followers

Apr 2022

On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: Talked AI infrastructure, speculation, and real utopias with stu · 3 likes + reposts

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Posting cadence

0.8 / week

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Mostly text

Recent: 8 text · 4 image · 0 video.

Follower / following

1.9×

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🔥 Top post Talked AI infrastructure, speculation, and real utopias with students at Leiden today. This was a guest lecture for the course AI in Society. I presented the argument from my position paper, People's Compute, and used the occasion to pilot some new material I am developing on sp… ★ 3

I recently joined a panel at Pakhuis de Zwijger on resident involvement in decisions about AI in the city, closing the Human Values for Smarter Cities project, where I was lead researcher for TU Delft. My point: involvement shouldn't stop … Tomorrow at FAccT 2026 in Montreal, Timothée Schmude presents our paper "Two Means to an End Goal," on two principles AI regulation keeps leaning on: explainability and contestability. We interviewed 14 experts across law, computer science… Next week I'll be at the ThingsCon Salon in Rotterdam for the launch of RIOT 2026, ThingsCon's State of Responsible Technology report. I'll briefly present "Mud and Models," an essay with Sunjoo Lee, Lena Trotereau, and Fieke Jansen, on tw… Volgende week dinsdag ga ik tijdens het event "Bewoners-in-the-loop" (23 juni 19.30, Pakhuis de Zwijger) in gesprek met ombudsman Munish Ramlal over burgerparticipatie bij stedelijke AI. We presenteren ook het handboek Bewoners-in-the-loop… Heading to Singapore for ACM DIS 2026, 13 to 17 June. I served as an associate chair on the Artifacts and Systems subcommittee this year, so I'm especially looking forward to seeing all the great accepted papers presented. Hoping to reconn… We argue for complementing the ladder with an institutional learning approach: treating participation as something the organization learns from and adapts to over time, rather than a level set once and delivered. Open access: https://doi.o… Main finding: the level of participation shifted over the project. Early on, citizens co-decided, voting on priorities and co-designing solutions. As work moved into implementation, enforcement and efficiency priorities reasserted themselv…

Amsterdam wanted a camera-equipped "scan bike" to spot things like illegally placed construction waste containers in public space. Unusually, the procurement tender required a year-long civic participation process, with a citizen panel sha… ★ 2 Voor de echte nerds, een paar invloedrijke artikelen over zelfrijdende auto's en verantwoordelijkheid: 1. de Sio et al. (2023). Realising Meaningful Human Control Over Automated Driving Systems. Minds and Machines, 33(4), 587–611. https://… ★ 3 Ik ben geïnterviewd door Trouw over het RDW-besluit om Tesla's met een rijhulpsysteem toe te laten op Nederlandse wegen. Wie is verantwoordelijk als er iets misgaat? Het antwoord lijkt eenvoudig: de bestuurder. Maar het zit ingewikkelder i… ★ 1

What better place to explore regenerative community computing than at Creative Coding Utrecht, home of artist Sunjoo Lee's electric garden? Last Friday, Sunjoo Lee, Fieke Jansen, Lena Trotereau and I ran a second iteration of our workshop… ★ 1

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🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 4 years ago.

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Est. 92% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
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Designer turned design researcher. Postdoc at TU Delft. Exploring contestable AI.

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