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What artificial butter tells us about Artificial Intelligence
- Occurred
- Jan 9, 2026
- Published
- Jan 9, 2026
- Source
- AlgorithmWatch
Summary
Last year, I finished my PhD at the university of Regensburg. My dissertation, published this month, examines in detail artificial butter in the early 20th century. Some might argue that the topic is remote from Artificial Intelligence. I beg to differ. Exploitation. A cohort of white, male entrepreneurs established networks across the Global South to […]
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- anthropology
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Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 95%
Rationale: This is an academic paper discussing historical analogies, not a concrete AI safety incident.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8