Eryk Salvaggio is a Gates Scholar researching AI and the humanities at the University of Cambridge and an Affiliated Researcher in the Machine Visual Culture Research Group at the Max Planck Institute, Rome. He was a 2025 Tech Policy Press fellow, and he writes regularly at 

Eryk Salvaggio

Why Musk is Culpable in Grok's Undressing Disaster

Generative AI’s Productivity Myth

The AI Safety Debate Needs AI Skeptics

AI Could Never Be ‘Woke’

In Copyright ‘Wins’ for Anthropic and Meta, Judges Leave Ample Room for Future Defeats

The Black Box Myth: What the Industry Pretends Not to Know About AI

Musk, AI, and the Weaponization of 'Administrative Error'

Machines Cannot Feel or Think, but Humans Can, and Ought To

Future Fatigue: How Hype has Replaced Hope in the 21st Century

Most Researchers Do Not Believe AGI Is Imminent. Why Do Policymakers Act Otherwise?

The AI State is a Surveillance State

Anatomy of an AI Coup

The Ugliest Thing San Francisco Ever Built: Lessons for AI Infrastructure

Challenging The Myths of Generative AI

Context, Consent, and Control: The Three C’s of Data Participation in the Age of AI

LAION-5B, Stable Diffusion 1.5, and the Original Sin of Generative AI

Shining a Light on “Shadow Prompting”

What the WGA Contract Tells Us About Workers Navigating AI

A New Contract for Artists in the Age of Generative AI

How User-Designed Social Media Could Create Healthier Online Communities

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