How do social bots contribute to online conversations on climate change? Social bots are involved in spreading discourses both in support and opposition of climate change action, but ultimately with unknown consequences, a recent study finds. Learn more: buff.ly/3NjEmV0

How often do people get incorrect legal, financial or medical advise from chatbots? Defamatory content? Toxic or biased outputs? How often do bad actors use gen AI to create disinfo or CSAM? We don't know. The risks debate is happening in a data vacuum. knightcolumbia.org/blog/generativ…

AI model GPT-3 (dis)informs us better than humans | Science Advances science.org/doi/full/10.11…

OpenAI and Microsoft are being sued in California for $3 billion over alleged #privacy violations. Here's a short thread on why this lawsuit is important and worth following 🧵👇 #AIEthics

🌞 Need new inspiration? Look no further! We're heading into Swedish summer, and this channel will be a bit quieter for a few weeks. If you miss us too much, here are a few tips about good reads and podcasts to find inspiration for the upcoming weeks: buff.ly/3NwHtJk

”I think it sets a terrible example for future scientists,” said Andersen. “If I was a future scientist and looking at that, [I’d be] saying like, maybe I'm not going to go into infectious disease research.”

”The probability that malicious foreign actors will seek to meddle in U.S. democratic practice is close to 100 percent.” —foreignaffairs.com/united-states/…

My research on the disinformation campaign(s) targeting the Hawaii fires —which was amplified by Russia and China — is featured in this new piece by Hawaii News Now. The takeaway: Crises are a target for disinfo and social media is an attack surface. hawaiinewsnow.com/2023/09/13/mau…

New grant! Delighted to be able to work more closely with our colleagues at the Urban Systems Lab (New School, NYC) and and especially Timon McPhearson (he/him) in a project that applies AI-models to analyze social vulnerabilities and climate risks in cities. beijer.kva.se/news-item/gran…

A crisis of one’s own: The politics of trauma in Europe’s election year: ecfr.eu/publication/a-… via ECFR

It’s been 9 years since we brought together a group of philosophers, hackers, artists, and others to develop what we called “the Biosphere Code manifesto”. Recovered from the depths of my email: The Biosphere Code v1.0 October 4th, 2015, Stockholm darkmachines.earth/blog/the-biosp…

OMG it’s actually happening…