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From Elon Musk's DOGE to the UK's AI Action Plan, states are adopting AI as key tool of governance But what happens when states see their populations through AI? How is AI changing the nature of the state? Our new OA paper sets out a research agenda journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

📢: Check out this new publication on "Artificial Intelligence and the State: Seeing like an Artificial Neural Network" by Petter Törnberg, Ola Söderström, Jennifer Barella, Saskia Greyling, and Sophie Oldfield! 🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20… #governance #AI

🤖💡 Are LLMs really developing social behaviors—or just reproducing familiar patterns from training? In our new paper, Petter Törnberg and I take a closer look at recent claims of emergent conventions in AI and offer a different perspective... 🧵

On how hype emerged at the heart of contemporary capitalism. devdiscourse.com/article/techno…

As we transition from industrial to digital modernity, business tycoons no longer view humans as cogs in machines. Now, as platforms become all-powerful, a new, stealthier form of domination is emerging, Petter Törnberg & Justus Uitermark argue. noemamag.com/the-ascendance…

In this new #OnlineFirst article, Petter Törnberg explores how hype & financial narratives empower Big Tech through self-fulfilling prophecies. What critics call #surveillancecapitalism, investors see as profit. This article call for critical hype studies. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

PhD position out at University of Amsterdam We’re looking for a computer scientist interested in LLMs, social media, and politics Offer a lot of freedom and an exciting environment! Please share! werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies/p…