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Far-right movements use TikTok bots and AI to power a resurgence in UK far-right violence. theguardian.com/politics/artic…

This week’s riots aren’t happening in a vacuum. We’re living and breathing on platforms that billionaires have optimised for outrage. This is the world that social media made. My piece for The Observer with contributions from the great Maria Ressa + more theguardian.com/media/article/…

"The history of AI is often told as the story of machines getting smarter over time. What's lost is the human element in the narrative, how intelligent machines are designed, trained, and powered by human minds and bodies." spectrum.ieee.org/untold-history…

NEW PAPER! 1. Small AI models often perform better than big in context. 2. Obsession w bigness has bad consequences, from climate, to power concentration, to surveillance, to research capture. This & what to do c/o Gael Varoquaux 🦋, Sasha Luccioni, PhD 🦋🌎✨🤗 and me ♥️👇 arxiv.org/abs/2409.14160

📢 Aquest proper mes d'octubre tornen els seminaris del #CicleOEIAC amb "La infrastructuralització de la intel·ligència artificial: Implicacions per als drets fonamentals", a càrrec de Roser Pujadas 🗓️ 21/10 a les 17h (virtual) 📲 Retransmissió via YT youtube.com/live/RSIajpyP3…

What impact will Artificial Intelligence have on freedom of speech? How will the ability of tools such as ChatGPT and Gemini to instantly steal any form of journalistic or critical expression effect our media landscape? 👇👇👇👇

“Ran it overnight, applied to around 150 jobs. got an HR call this morning and i'm just getting started lol. I'm gonna have it run 24/7" 404media.co/i-applied-to-2…

NEW INVESTIGATION: Uber and Lyft locked drivers out of work to game a NYC minimum wage law. We crowdsourced screenshots, monitored surge pricing and ran financial models to reveal the devastating impact on drivers. w/ Natalie Lung Aaron W. Gordon ಠ_ಠ bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…

Ben aviat tindrem el privilegi d'acollir a la professora Roser Pujadas Roser Pujadas de UCL STEaPP en el #cicleOEIAC Si voleu saber més sobre com la IA és infrastructural i com això afecta diversos drets fonamentals, inclosa la salut democràtica, no us perdeu el seu seminari!

NEW: Amidst a frenzy around public AI investment in Europe, our new report takes us back to the drawing board. What kind of (digital) future does Europe want? What role can (should) AI play? Who should have a say? Read expert perspectives: ainowinstitute.org/redirecting-eu… 1/

Very happy to share our new publication with my brilliant colleagues Benjamin Lipp , @PaulaHelm12 and athanasios "De-centring the interface. Towards the integrated study of interfacial relations" in Information, Communication & Society tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Demà tenim #cicleOEIAC vitual a les 17h amb la professora Roser Pujadas de la UCL UCL STEaPP - no us el perdeu! Més detalls i connexió en la piulada de sota

🔔 The CFP of the 15th OAP Workshop is online! This year's theme: "Ordinary Democracy in the Making: Renewing Our Times and Spaces of Democratic Representation in and through Organization". Join us on June 6 and 7 at LSE ➡️ Full CFP here: lnkd.in/eQn6su49 #Democracy

Internet Archive has not been archiving since 10/8. Google Cache has stopped caching. The Alexa service - the one that used to rank web traffic (not the Amazon virtual assistant) is gone. The ability of censors to memory-hole the internet is growing. brownstone.org/articles/they-…

#RegainingDigitalSovereignty white paper is out. A timely and necessary collective effort, led by @rikap, Cédric Durand, Edemilson Paraná ,Paolo Gerbaudo, Paris Marx. Pleased to have been able to contribute.

In my own words at last. I stood up to the ‘boys club’ at the heart of our justice system – and was vindicated. Bar Standards Board attempted to silence me for calling out injustice and sexism. Being cleared was a win for free speech. Read my article ⬇️ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Cecilia Rikap 🎤To answer these pressing questions, UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose Prof Cecilia Rikap welcomes panelists, academics, and scholars: M. Amir , Carla Bonina , Matthew Cole 🍉 , Paolo Gerbaudo , Fausto Gernone , Edemilson Paraná , Roser Pujadas , and ana vldv (@anavaldi.bsky.social)