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Kars Alfrink

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Designer turned design researcher. Postdoc at TU Delft. Exploring contestable AI.

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Joined April 27, 2022
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Kars Alfrink @kaeru@post.lurk.org · May 04, 2026
Kars Alfrink
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Designer turned design researcher. Postdoc at TU Delft. Exploring contestable AI.

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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 lot of provocative and helpful questions to chew on.

As usual, the slides are on my website. https://contestable.ai/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/designing-ai-otherwise-leiden-university-20260504-optimized.pdf

Many thanks to Zane Kripe for the invitation.

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Kars Alfrink @kaeru@post.lurk.org · Apr 14, 2026
Kars Alfrink
@kaeru@post.lurk.org

Designer turned design researcher. Postdoc at TU Delft. Exploring contestable AI.

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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://doi.org/10/gqktcj
  2. Elish, M. C. (2019). Moral Crumple Zones: Cautionary Tales in Human-Robot Interaction. Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, 5, 40–60. https://doi.org/10/gf2t99
  3. Stilgoe, J. (2018). Machine learning, social learning and the governance of self-driving cars. Social Studies of Science, 48(1), 25–56. https://doi.org/10/gckx3b
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Kars Alfrink @kaeru@post.lurk.org · Apr 14, 2026
Kars Alfrink
@kaeru@post.lurk.org

Designer turned design researcher. Postdoc at TU Delft. Exploring contestable AI.

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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 in elkaar.

Link: https://www.trouw.nl/duurzaamheid-economie/is-nederland-wel-klaar-voor-de-zelfrijdende-auto-als-de-bestuurder-de-klappen-moet-opvangen-belandt-de-mens-in-een-morele-kreukelzone~b4727575/

Uit decennia mens-machine-interactieonderzoek weten we dat mensen slecht zijn in het monitoren van geautomatiseerde processen om plotseling in te grijpen. We weten ook uit de luchtvaart dat incidenten het gevolg kunnen zijn van complexe aaneenschakelingen van menselijk handelen. Niet alleen bestuurders, maar ook fabrikanten, ingenieurs en zelfs toezichthouders zouden verantwoordelijk gehouden moeten kunnen worden.

Maar wat nu gebeurt, is in feite een groot sociaal experiment. Het veld van maatschappelijk verantwoord innoveren leert ons dat we niet alleen terugkijkend, maar vooral vooruitkijkend moeten handelen, met een breed scala aan maatschappelijke partijen. We zouden dit als een proces van continu leren moeten benaderen: monitoren wat de gevolgen zijn voor het bredere verkeerssysteem, en tijdig bijsturen als dat nodig blijkt.

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Kars Alfrink @kaeru@post.lurk.org · Apr 03, 2026
Kars Alfrink
@kaeru@post.lurk.org

Designer turned design researcher. Postdoc at TU Delft. Exploring contestable AI.

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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 those hands-on experiences might mean for ideas of the future of a computing that is sustainable in the proper sense of the word. All of it once again captured by Lena in a live drawing.

Many thanks to Martina Denegri and Fabian van Sluijs for having us and for all the participants who joined us.

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Kars Alfrink @kaeru@post.lurk.org · Mar 25, 2026
Kars Alfrink
@kaeru@post.lurk.org

Designer turned design researcher. Postdoc at TU Delft. Exploring contestable AI.

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Shout-out to my co-presenters Stefan Buijsman and Bart van der Sloot for their interesting contributions, and many thanks to Wybe Segeren, Anne van Groningen, and Emilie van den Hoven for having me.
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Kars Alfrink @kaeru@post.lurk.org · Mar 25, 2026
Kars Alfrink
@kaeru@post.lurk.org

Designer turned design researcher. Postdoc at TU Delft. Exploring contestable AI.

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The slides are up on my website, as usual: https://contestable.ai/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/human-autonomy-in-the-age-of-ai-dutch-data-protection-authority-kars-alfrink-optimized.pdf
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Kars Alfrink @kaeru@post.lurk.org · Mar 25, 2026
Kars Alfrink
@kaeru@post.lurk.org

Designer turned design researcher. Postdoc at TU Delft. Exploring contestable AI.

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I argued for a politics-first, rather than ethics-first, approach to preserving human autonomy as AI becomes more pervasive.
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Kars Alfrink @kaeru@post.lurk.org · Mar 25, 2026
Kars Alfrink
@kaeru@post.lurk.org

Designer turned design researcher. Postdoc at TU Delft. Exploring contestable AI.

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The talk centered on a case study of the Vision Model Macroscope project, where we're exploring how design can open up machine learning engineering decisions in a public AI system for debate by the frontline workers whose work that system manages.
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Kars Alfrink @kaeru@post.lurk.org · Mar 25, 2026
Kars Alfrink
@kaeru@post.lurk.org

Designer turned design researcher. Postdoc at TU Delft. Exploring contestable AI.

post.lurk.org

It is always a pleasure to bring a design research perspective to a new context. Today, I presented my talk, "Designing AI for Autonomy as a Political Project," at the Dutch Data Protection Authority's AI & Algorithm Seminar.

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Kars Alfrink @kaeru@post.lurk.org · Mar 23, 2026
Kars Alfrink
@kaeru@post.lurk.org

Designer turned design researcher. Postdoc at TU Delft. Exploring contestable AI.

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Slides are available on my website for the curious. https://contestable.ai/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/ae2224-ii-ethical-issues-in-ai-kars-alfrink-optimized.pdf
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Kars Alfrink @kaeru@post.lurk.org · Mar 23, 2026
Kars Alfrink
@kaeru@post.lurk.org

Designer turned design researcher. Postdoc at TU Delft. Exploring contestable AI.

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Many thanks to Bianca Giovanardi for the invitation and to my colleague Sara Colombo for making the connection.
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Kars Alfrink @kaeru@post.lurk.org · Mar 23, 2026
Kars Alfrink
@kaeru@post.lurk.org

Designer turned design researcher. Postdoc at TU Delft. Exploring contestable AI.

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My lecture covered the limitations of a principles-based approach, introduced value sensitive design, and discussed how we can adapt VSD to the specifics of AI as a technology.
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Kars Alfrink @kaeru@post.lurk.org · Mar 23, 2026
Kars Alfrink
@kaeru@post.lurk.org

Designer turned design researcher. Postdoc at TU Delft. Exploring contestable AI.

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Started the week with the distinct pleasure of delivering a guest lecture on ethical issues in AI for our second-year bachelor students in Aerospace Engineering.

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Kars Alfrink @kaeru@post.lurk.org · Mar 17, 2026
Kars Alfrink
@kaeru@post.lurk.org

Designer turned design researcher. Postdoc at TU Delft. Exploring contestable AI.

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We (Sunjoo, Fieke, Lena, and I) will conduct a second iteration of our workshop on mud batteries and computing infrastructure titled "Soil to Servers" at Creative Coding Utrecht during the Week of the Circular Economy next week. https://creativecodingutrecht.nl/en/calendar/soil-to-servers

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Kars Alfrink @kaeru@post.lurk.org · Mar 10, 2026
Kars Alfrink
@kaeru@post.lurk.org

Designer turned design researcher. Postdoc at TU Delft. Exploring contestable AI.

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I'll be speaking on human autonomy and AI at the Dutch Data Protection Authority's annual AI and algorithms seminar. https://www.aanmelder.nl/174190/aanmelden

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Kars Alfrink @kaeru@post.lurk.org · Mar 05, 2026
Kars Alfrink
@kaeru@post.lurk.org

Designer turned design researcher. Postdoc at TU Delft. Exploring contestable AI.

post.lurk.org

Enjoyed attending the launch of the 4TU.Design United Research School. Jealous of all those Dutch design research PhDs who will undoubtedly benefit tremendously from its current and future course offerings. https://www.4tu.nl/du/Research-school/

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Kars Alfrink @kaeru@post.lurk.org · Jan 27, 2026
Kars Alfrink
@kaeru@post.lurk.org

Designer turned design researcher. Postdoc at TU Delft. Exploring contestable AI.

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I'll be in Amsterdam this Friday for the 2026 unconference on digital autonomy. https://www.meetup.com/code-for-nl/events/312499192/

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Kars Alfrink @kaeru@post.lurk.org · Jan 15, 2026
Kars Alfrink
@kaeru@post.lurk.org

Designer turned design researcher. Postdoc at TU Delft. Exploring contestable AI.

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Many thanks to all the participants who enthusiastically joined the workshop (we exceeded our capacity) and to Iskander Smit and the rest of the ThingsCon team for having us.
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Kars Alfrink @kaeru@post.lurk.org · Jan 15, 2026
Kars Alfrink
@kaeru@post.lurk.org

Designer turned design researcher. Postdoc at TU Delft. Exploring contestable AI.

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This was a lot of fun to do. I really liked how critical thinking, art, hands-on making, and design futuring came together in a fairly accessible way. Hope to do more of this kind of work in the year to come.
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Kars Alfrink @kaeru@post.lurk.org · Jan 15, 2026
Kars Alfrink
@kaeru@post.lurk.org

Designer turned design researcher. Postdoc at TU Delft. Exploring contestable AI.

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https://www.tudelft.nl/2025/io/december/from-mud-to-models-a-workshop-on-regenerative-ai-futures
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Kars Alfrink @kaeru@post.lurk.org · Jan 15, 2026
Kars Alfrink
@kaeru@post.lurk.org

Designer turned design researcher. Postdoc at TU Delft. Exploring contestable AI.

post.lurk.org

Brief report of the "From Mud to Models" workshop on regenerative AI futures organized by Fieke Jansen, Sunjoo Lee, Lena Trotereau, and me at TH/NGS 2025.

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