🇪🇺 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…
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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
@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
If you're in Bergen 🇳🇴 next week on 2/10, join @natalihelberger.bsky.social and @kimonkieslich.bsky.social for this open roundtable organized by @sfimediafutures.bsky.social about trust, accountability, public reasoning and justice in an AI-mediated news environment! mediafutu…
❔ Our online panel tackling AI content labels and their unexpected consequences, a hot topic since the enforcement of Article 50 of the AI Act, yielded some clear points of concern shared by the expert speakers present. Read our reflection on it here, or watch the recording: t…
❔ Our online panel tackling AI content labels and their unexpected consequences, a hot topic since the enforcement of Article 50 of the AI Act, yielded some clear points of concern shared by the expert speakers present. Read our reflection on it here, or watch the recording: t…
Main topic: challenges to objectivity in journalism & science brought on by genAI misinformation. Moderated by dr. Charlotte Bruns, and with insights from Joana Magalhães, João Gonçalves, tim pauwels, and our own @teresaelena.bsky.social. Don't miss it! Sign up for free at tin…
@claesdevreese.bsky.social will be at EDDY 2026 giving a keynote on the systemic challenges of AI to democracy! The event features talks & practical sessions, in aiming to facilitate advances in digital democracy through both theory & application. Register: www.eddy-network.eu…
📅 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…
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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! 🧵 👇️
AI Hype, Hope & Humanity Festival is happening very soon, and we have a lot in store! Our highlight from the program is the panel we're jointly organizing with @scicommcentre.eu 🔎 "Who Can You Trust? On Misinformation and Communication in the Age of AI" 📅 30 September, 15:45 - 17:15 | 📍 Rotterdam
👥 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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