Christoph Bublitz

In dubio pro futura - a small contribution from legal theory to avert the climate catastrophe. @Christophkw and I suggest that the law may exploit a key topic of legal theory - the indeterminacy of law. 1/

@lu_eder @RonenSteinke ah, ich vergas, twitter diskussionskultur. da bin ich raus.

@JCBublitz @RonenSteinke Das ist der schlechteste Grund für irgendwas, jemals.

Wie stark das patriarchale Denken unser Rechtssystem prägt, sieht man übrigens schon hieran: Mit Sexualstrafrecht muss man sich im Jurastudium *keine Minute* befassen. (1/8)

Disturbing anecdotal reports of "AI psychosis" and negative psychological effects have been emerging in the news. But what actually happens during these lengthy delusional "spirals"? In our preprint, we analyze chat logs from 19 users who experienced severe psychological harm🧵👇

We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects.

6/ It may also lead to a Freedom-of-Thought Impact Assessment for tech governance. OA here: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

5/ Accordingly, States must identify and mitigate risks to freedom of thought, with substantial leeway and discretion. These obligations are one reason to regulate social media with respect to harmful effects on cognition, psychology, and as I also argue, truth-finding.

Given the ongoing debates about social media regulation, allow me to do as the big guys and briefly steal your attention to point to my new paper on the human right to freedom of thought operationalized for digital technologies, especially social media. It makes two key points.

10/ Placing people in it creates duties of epistemic care - also for therapists. Open Access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

9/ the field. While they may surely be therapeutically beneficial, which is intrinsically valuable, their epistemic problems should at least be marked and accomodated. Psychedelics induce a state which I call "doxastic vulnerability".

💭 New paper on the ethics of changing minds through psychedelics, and some implications for psychedelic psychotherapy. Two epistemic narratives surround psychedelics. They may “open the doors of perception” (Huxley) and offer insight and learnings ...

link.springer.com/article/10.100… #Neuroethics #Neurotech #BCI #HumanRights

6/ We call for: • a moratorium on non-medical invasive neurotech. • development of a mandatory Mental Impact Assessment • a ban on non-medical implants in children Read the open access paper:

🧠 New paper: “A Moratorium on Implantable Non-Medical Neurotech” As Neuralink, Synchron, and possibly soon MergeLab by OpenAI push the frontier, we ask: are we ready for Brain-Computer Interfaces outside medicine? ➡️Our new paper says: not yet. 🧵