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
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Researcher with public evidence across Policy & governance, AI research, Culture, work & education.
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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
How AI Hype Helps Render Women Invisible techpolicy.press
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AI Act Advisory Forum digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu
Opinion | Why College Grads Are Booing Their Commencement Speakers nytimes.com
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There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning arxiv.org
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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Facial recognition cameras to be trialled at London Tube stations bbc.com
Rising number of UK children report seeing explicit deepfakes of themselves theguardian.com
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"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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«As a form of structural invisibility, AI is violent, not just biased.» Important new essay by @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/how-ai-hype-...
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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“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...
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“New scientific endeavors often start with an empirical tension in which nature presents something interesting we cannot predict or explain with existing tools, and although neural networks are artificial computational systems, this same scientific tension is present here.” ar…
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- A team of fourteen researchers argues that a scientific theory of deep learning is emerging, and proposes calling it 'learning mechanics.'
- They point to five converging strands: solvable settings, tractable limits, neural scaling laws, hyperparameter theories, and universal behaviors across models.
- The framing casts learning mechanics as deep learning's 'physics,' with mechanistic interpretability playing the 'biology' role in the same field.
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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.
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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…
Between February and July, the BTP deployed the technology 18 times across major London train stations, scanning more than 530,000 faces ... Results show the operations resulted in zero true matches and no arrests, with the system triggering a single false identification. www.…
In the first six months of this year it received 420 reports from children of images of themselves that they believed had been faked or manipulated to appear explicit. The number has already exceeded its 2025 total of 397. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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