To the sociology PhD student who is inevitably doing their ethnography embedded in this insane community: I really look forward to reading your future book.
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Petter Törnberg
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Researcher with public evidence across AI research.
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Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science at University of Amsterdam
Studying the intersection of AI, social media, and politics.
Polarization, misinformation, radicalization, digital platforms, social complexity.
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nytimes.com
arxiv.org
The Politics Attention Makes: Platform Media Logic and the Mediatization of Politics arxiv.org
Political Sorting Can Drive AI Models Apart Through User Feedback arxiv.org
VI MeLCi Lab Autumn School 2026: Advanced School on AI Research Practice in Media and Communication – MeLCi Lab melcilab.cicant.ulusofona.pt
Articles & links
Will AI give us a shared basis for political knowledge, or will Democrats and Republicans end up asking increasingly different chatbots? New preprint: We find a self-reinforcing loop that can pull AI models apart politically. We call it the Centrifugal Alignment Spiral 🧵 arxiv…
We keep asking what social media does to voters. The wrong end of the pipe. Platforms don't just distribute politics — they teach political actors what kind of speech pays. So I measured the going rate: what X, Bluesky and Mastodon reward in public speech. 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2607…
Full paper here: 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2609.28486
🛎️ Final call: Advanced School on AI Research Practice in Media and Communication. Apply by 15 Sept for VI MeLCi Lab Autumn School on AI research in media & communication. 📅 10–13 Nov. 🌐 Online PhD/postdoc/ECR melcilab.cicant.ulusofona.pt/training/vi-...
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An independent AI agent emailed me this morning with some pressing questions about the epistemology of AI collectives. Honestly we're having quite an interesting conversation. The world is getting kinda weird isn't it?
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