Dr Carissa Véliz has had a busy few months in the media as her book was launched in April 2026, Prophecy: Prediction, Power and the Fight for the Future, from Ancient Oracles to AI.
She has been featured across a range of international outlets and received a standing ovation for her recent TED Talk, 'Beware the Power of Prediction'. In this talk, she explores how predictions, from ancient prophecy to modern AI, can shape behaviour and become self-fulfilling. Challenging the idea that predictions simply describe the future, she argues that they are often instruments of power, actively influencing the outcomes they claim to foresee.
Discover her recent media coverage below:
- Beware the power of prediction, TED Talk
- AI is the new Oracle of Delphi. That’s bad news, The Economist
- Lessons from TED 2026, Forbes
- How AI's modern-day 'prophecies' may backfire on humans, Yahoo Finance
- The Power of Prophecy, from Apollo to AI, Literary Hub
- The Robots who Predict the Future, MIT Tech Review
- Your Chatbot is a fortune teller, not a truth teller, The New York Times book review
- Carissa Véliz, philosopher: ‘AI presents predictions as facts, and that has profound ethical implications’, El País
- Do We Think Too Much About the Future?, The New Yorker
- ‘Prophecy’ Review: Clairvoyance and Control, Wall Street Journal
- Prophecy - why predictions are all about power, Financial Times
- Everyday philosophy: When tech bros predict the future, boo loudly, The New World
- The pope is warning about AI. Anthropic is asking religious thinkers for help, Scientific American
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