Talks on Dr. Óscar Nájera

New Toastmasters Tech: E-Ballot & Transparent Contest Judging

Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I joined Brendan O’Sullivan on the Toastmasters World Tour podcast to talk about the e-ballot system, the year of getting it approved and tested, and where I want to take it next — including the harder fight I haven’t started yet: making judging transparent instead of anonymous, the way Olympic judging works.

Beyond obsolesce: Working for robots

Thu, 13 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0100

In a future where artificial intelligence plays an increasingly dominant role in our lives, the traditionally feared narrative of humans being replaced by machines might not be the end scenario. Instead of becoming obsolete, we find ourselves in a new role as caregivers to AI, working for it instead.

AI in Europe - regulated to irrelevance

Sun, 04 May 2025 00:00:00 +0200

Europe is regulating itself into irrelevance in the digital space. Lead by good intentions to protect consumers safety and privacy as well as promoting fair play between companies, it created a playground nobody wants to play in. Motivated by the frustrating burden of regulation I went to explore what alternatives we could enjoy, and how we as a society have regulated incoming technologies.

Regulating Technology

Sun, 18 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0100

A technology survives as long as it serves a solution in a better way than the problems it adds. Digitization has evolved from interesting to crucial in only a few decades. Artificial Intelligence shall experience an even faster adoption and challenges us to form opinions about things we didn’t grow up with and don’t always understand so well. That accompanies our move towards new regulation with panic, a rush for easy answers and inadvertence to complexities at hand.

Sleeper agents: training deceptive LLMs that persist through safety training

Fri, 15 Mar 2024 18:45:00 +0100

From political candidates to job-seekers, humans under selection pressure often try to gain opportunities by hiding their true motivations. They present themselves as more aligned with the expectations of their audience than they actually are. If an AI system learned such a deceptive strategy, could we detect it and remove it using current safety training techniques?

Preventing the collapse of civilization again

Tue, 03 Oct 2023 16:45:00 +0100

This is NOT a talk about how AI could take over the world and enslave humans, enough dramatic news, policies, and sci-fi novels tell that story.

But there are still many ramifications from our use of technology. From the very way we record and distribute knowledge into society to how we actively use and maintain available technologies.

Preventing the collapse of civilization

Tue, 13 Jun 2023 17:30:00 +0200

This is NOT a talk about how AI could take over the world and enslave humans, enough dramatic news, policies, and sci-fi novels tell that story.

But there are still many ramifications from our use of technology. From the very way we record and distribute knowledge into society to how we actively use and maintain available technologies.

My cloud, I rule my data and I rule how I communicate

Sun, 23 Aug 2020 10:00:00 +0200

In this workshop I teach how to use the sovereign project. A set of Ansible playbooks that you use to build and maintain you own personal cloud entirely based on open source projects. It covers the basics, Email, online storage sync, calendars, web hosting, git hosting, VPN.

English - The torture of the conqueror

Sat, 16 Nov 2019 10:00:00 +0100

This is a short humorous speech for the Wordstock Festival. I go over the hurdles of learning English as a foreign language and all those language quirks.

Monitoring bees and more

Sat, 06 Apr 2019 15:15:00 +0200

Held in German, this talk shows how to use Checkmk and about an interesting use case about it flexibility when it is configured to monitory bee colonies and their honey production.