Carissa Véliz

British-Mexican-Spanish philosopher

  1. We use numbers when we don't trust people, and we forget that people come up with the numbers, that the numbers are not as objective as we would like them to be. And Big Tech is just the latest iteration of that.
    Carissa Véliz · The Lawfare Podcast · Lawfare Daily: Prophecy, Prediction, and Power with Carissa Véliz · 2026-07-10
  2. It's very easy to have the temptation of, I just want to know, I just want to be prepared. But that kind of attitude terrifies us. It pushes us onto asking prophets to essentially tell us what to do.
    Carissa Véliz · The Lawfare Podcast · Lawfare Daily: Prophecy, Prediction, and Power with Carissa Véliz · 2026-07-10
  3. Predictions are not knowledge. They belong more to the sphere of power. And at the end of the day, human beings are the ones who are the responsible agents here.
    Carissa Véliz · The Lawfare Podcast · Lawfare Daily: Prophecy, Prediction, and Power with Carissa Véliz · 2026-07-10