Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Rosamunde Van Brakel
assistant prof criminology teaching legal, ethical & social issues AI/sociology of law @VUB research: digital & more-than-human criminology, surveillance & AI, youth justice, human rights
https://researchportal.vub.be/en/persons/rosamunde-elise-van-brakel
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Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good nature.com
[2605.07723] LLM hallucinations in the wild: Large-scale evidence from non-existent citations arxiv.org
AI Hiring Tools Can Yield Racial Bias and Systemic Rejection | Stanford HAI hai.stanford.edu
AI Act Advisory Forum digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu
Opinion | Why College Grads Are Booing Their Commencement Speakers nytimes.com
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Facial recognition AI misidentifies Utah man in felony vandalism case kutv.com
EU Unveils Sweeping Tech Sovereignty Push, Balancing Autonomy with Openness techpolicy.press
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Europe’s AI Sovereignty Problem Runs Far Deeper Than Frontier Access techpolicy.press
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To Mitigate Anti-Tech Violence, Strengthen Democracy techpolicy.press
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Verhaltensscanner am Kotti startet noch im Sommer netzpolitik.org
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AI Could Use as Much Water as 1.3 Billion People by 2030 time.com
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Articles & links
"hallucinated references disproportionately assign credit to already prominent and male scholars, suggesting that LLM-generated errors may reinforce existing inequities in scientific recognition" arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723
‘Our new paper offers a rare look inside the “black box” of algorithmic hiring, showing that these tools increase racial bias and shut the same people out of jobs everywhere they apply’ hai.stanford.edu/news/ai-hiri...
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- A Stanford HAI study of 4 million applications found 26% of Black applicants faced AI-screened positions that discriminated against their racial group.
- Roughly 40,000 more applications would have advanced if the AI tool had recommended candidates at equal rates across racial groups.
- Ten percent of applicants who submitted four applications screened by the same vendor were rejected from all of them, exceeding independent-probability expectations.
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Very honoured that I have been selected as a member of the EU's #AIAct Advisory Forum and I see that I am in some good company 🥳 digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/...
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Rosamunde Van Brakel reposted
“As Americans rebel against A.I., the industry’s oligarchic leaders are responding by trying to buy even more political influence, pouring money into super PACs and lobbying” 🤡 The Generation That Grew Up With A.I. Hates It www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/o...
A Utah man says he endured months of fear and thousands of dollars in legal expenses after he says facial recognition technology incorrectly identified him as a suspect in a felony vandalism case. #rhizomaticharms kutv.com/news/2news-i...
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Brussels sets out an ambitious cross-sector plan to reduce Europe’s dependence on foreign technology, spanning cloud services, semiconductors and AI, while pairing new regulatory tools with investment and industrial policy to expand domestic capacity, reports Ramsha Jahangir.
Rosamunde Van Brakel reposted
Great piece by @frederike.bsky.social & @leevisaari.eurosky.social on the risks of building "European AI" on top of foreign models. One thing I'd add: digital decade goals indirectly incentivise member states to ignore it in pursuit of AI adoption and "unicorns". www.techpolic…
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Treating all opposition to data centers as a national security threat is the wrong move, says Jordyn Abrams, who argues policymakers must address legitimate public grievances about AI—not just police them.
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My new paper "The Fallacy of Sustainable Generative AI: Limitations in EU Environmental Regulation of Data Centres and Paths Forward" w/Daria Onitiu & @bmittelstadt.bsky.social is out now! We show how EU laws are not well equipped to curb the carbon footprint AI leaves behind.…
Rosamunde Van Brakel reposted
Die Berliner Polizei hat sich für eine Verhaltensscanner-Software entschieden. Die automatisierte Überwachung des öffentlichen Raums soll noch in diesem Quartal am Kottbusser Tor starten. Weitere hochfrequentierte Orte sollen folgen. netzpolitik.org/2026/softwar...
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AI data centers will use up enough clean water for 1.3 bn people by 2030, according to a United Nations report. We can live without as many data centres, but not clean water! time.com/article/2026...
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