"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
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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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[2605.07723] LLM hallucinations in the wild: Large-scale evidence from non-existent citations arxiv.org
Opinion | Why College Grads Are Booing Their Commencement Speakers nytimes.com
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AI Act Advisory Forum digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu
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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oii.ox.ac.uk
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AI Could Use as Much Water as 1.3 Billion People by 2030 time.com
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VIDEO | Meer politie, meer surveillance en meer AI: worden we daar veiliger van? kifkif.be
timeshighereducation.com
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Articles & links
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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...
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/...
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…
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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.…
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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...
Het is fijn om te zien dat er eindelijk wat aandacht is in België voor #surveillance en dat @kifkifbe.bsky.social subsidies krijgt om te focussen op AI, discriminatie, veiligheid en surveillance. Zie www.kifkif.be/bijdragen/vi...
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Despite #AI fears most students would still go to university but a third would rethink study choices, finds King's College London report, noting students more fearful than wider UK of AI causing harm to society #edusky https://ow.ly/UHO150Z16je
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