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🇪🇺 Proud that our co-director @natalihelberger.bsky.social has been elected as member of the EU AI Act Advisory Forum, representing the University of Amsterdam! Insights from our lab will have an even more direct avenue to contribute to AI governance. digital-strategy.ec.europ…
@theresajseipp.bsky.social was part of the closing session “EU regulation on AI: implications for the media, journalism, and disinformation”, where the effectiveness of the AI Act and the DSA in mitigating disinformation was debated. 👉 Recording: buff.ly/axvMg86
@hannescools.bsky.social moderated the opening panel on “The future of (science) journalism: AI, trust, and democracy”, where discussants reflected on the broad impacts of AI on journalism, media consumption, public trust, and democracy. 👉 Recording: buff.ly/WUCLSrt
📅 Make sure you've registered to AI HHH! It may seem like a regular academic conference, but it's going to be much more than that: workshops on gender and permacomputing, demos & installations, activities for kids, a kiosk with zines and other publications, among others! www.e…
Hannes gave more details about how the project will progress in the following months with mapping current dependencies, audience focus groups, and prototype building. Read here: www.aim4dem.nl/uva-how-can-...
🔎 How can EU regulation help public interest media face the monopolistic practices of GenAI providers? Join this panel organized by The Data Tank, featuring our co-director @natalihelberger.bsky.social, to hear more! 📅 29 September | 15:00 - 16:30 📍 Online 🔗 Sign up here: luma…
📷️ @trouw.nl analyzed social media posts from fictional influencers that promote harmful narratives using AI-generated images of women appearing to work for the military. Our postdoc @laurensnaudts.bsky.social contributed, expressing concern about the broad consequences. tinyu…
📷️ @trouw.nl analyzed social media posts from fictional influencers that promote harmful narratives using AI-generated images of women appearing to work for the military. Our postdoc @laurensnaudts.bsky.social contributed, expressing concern about the broad consequences. tinyu…
🤖 AI wordt vaak gezien als een risico voor betrouwbare nieuwsvoorziening. Maar kan het ook bijdragen aan een beter geïnformeerde samenleving? Sanne Vrijenhoek onderzoekt of gepersonaliseerde nieuwsaanbevelingen mensen kunnen verrassen met nieuwe perspectieven. bit.ly/nieuwsbub…
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@theresajseipp.bsky.social was part of the closing session “EU regulation on AI: implications for the media, journalism, and disinformation”, where the effectiveness of the AI Act and the DSA in mitigating disinformation was debated. 👉 Recording: buff.ly/axvMg86
Big congratulations to our co-director, @claesdevreese.bsky.social, for winning the 2026 Stevin Prize! The Dutch Research Council deemed his work in AI, politics and communication highly socially impactful, not only through research but also through expert advice. We are incredibly proud!
🔎 How to use LLMs to analyze news coverage? @fdabl.bsky.social, postdoc at @seven-uva.bsky.social, presented to us research conducted with @jmbh.bsky.social and Simon Wimmer as part of the Climate Media Lab on how media cover climate change, which also employed a new LLM-based methodology.
📚️ Our Lab at the ESMH Summer School 2026 The summer school with the topic of Science Communication in the age of AI organized by the European Science Media Hub of the European Parliament @epstoa.bsky.social has come to an end, and our lab was well represented in the sessions! 🧵 👇️
👥 Why do we sometimes choose AI over humans? @iterrucha.bsky.social, postdoc at University of Duisburg-Essen and fellow at @iasamsterdam.bsky.social, visited our lab this week to present her research on human exchanges with genAI, and the implications of LLM input for human decisions.
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