Welcome to Europe Mark Bray www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

Excited to welcome @pernillet.bsky.social, Advisor at dataethics.eu, to the #MyData2025 stage! 📢 Pernille will help guide two timely conversations: 🌍 Europe’s push for digital sovereignty 🩺 Sharing personal health data for care and policy 📍 Join us in Finland this September → conference.mydata.org

Low-cost and accessible AI therapy chatbots powered by large language models have been touted as one way to meet the need. But new research from Stanford University shows that these tools can introduce biases and failures that could result in dangerous consequences hai.stanford.edu/news/explori...

Have we heard this before if you write ‘social media’ in stead of chatbots: ‘Generative A.I. chatbots are going down conspiratorial rabbit holes and endorsing wild, mystical belief systems.’ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...

Yoshua Bengio is launching a new nonprofit lab to make AI systems act less like humans. Designing Generative AI as humans is manipulative and unethical. They are machines and should look like, talk like and act like machines www.axios.com/2025/06/03/y...

Initial trial for one copyright theft to train GenAI is up 9th June! This case is Getty images trying to save the photo industry. In another The New Yort Time is trying to save journalistic content. And record labels’ try to save music copyright www-cnbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.cnbc...

We all have a digital ID app (MitID) developed by Netcompany The app only works w Apple and Google. If you buy a European open-sourced smartphone like Fairphone, Volla or Murena you are lost. They can send you by snailmail a small code-device (made in China) so you can work your way around

One man w big economic interests and two journalists, who love GenAI, predict that AGI is close. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/p... It is wiser reading what true experts say about it - it is far far away - to the same news organisation here www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/t...

Of course chatbots are not protected by freedom of speech as former Google-staffers from the startup Character.ai claim. It is so dumb and such a waste of time and ressources to discuss whether machines who unethically have dressed up as humans should have any HUMAN rights apnews.com/article/ai-l...

Google and others w gigantic economic interests have hyped GenAI. Now they are hyping so-called Agentic AI, and we are seeing the beginning of a hype around AGI, artificial general intelligence, supposedly surpassing all human cognitive skills. It is bullshit, BS. www.axios.com/2025/05/21/g...

Sam Altmann says he doesn’t feel good about his relationship with technology today, so now he will pour money into the iphone-designer to make an AI gadget. Can’t wait to see how addictive that will be. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/t...

Drop using generative AI in your job applications, says IKEA. It robs you of your personality www.svt.se/nyheter/loka... #genai #ai

Making money on GenAIs who’s been trained on copyrighted content w no (license) agreement is not fair use, says report from US Copyright Office. The office boss has consequently been fired by Trump. Get the report here before he orders it to be deleted: www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright...

Listen to @karenhao.bsky.social in this podcast (25 minutes in) podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/h... She points to extremely important unethical issues w GenAI

Thanks @caseynewton.bsky.social for bringing in @karenhao.bsky.social - she’s a brilliant journalist and she’s right in her conclusions on GenAI. Funnily, neither of you - and especially not Kevin - backed her like you praise the makers of GenAI, especially Claude.

New test: OpenAI’s most powerful system hallucinates 33 percent of the time. That is more than twice the hallucination rate of its previous reasoning system. When running another test, which asks more general questions, the hallucination rates were 51 and 79 percent. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t...

Character.ai, who is being sued by a mother whose 14-year old son shot and killed himself due to a ‘relationship’ w one of its bots, wants chatbots (machines!) to be protected by HUMAN rights such as freedom of speech This is where we are 🤦🏼‍♀️ centerforhumanetechnology.substack.com/p/charactera...

A guide to Americans how dependent they are on Chinese products in their homes. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... Also Europeans are trying to change habits - getting away fromUS goods and services. What is hardest, do you think?

Many students perfer bots over teachers. But ability to ask endless questions without judgement or pushback isn't a proven way to learn. www.axios.com/2025/04/25/a...

Chinese internet users abuse generative AI making deep faked videos and music, mocking the American leaders for what they believe are ridiculous and outrageous policies and remarks. JD vance is known as “the eyeliner man” on the Chinese internet free read www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/b...

With its monopoly in digital ads, Google is depriving rivals of the ability to compete and harms especially news publishers according to US judge. The Justice Department has asked the court to force Google to sell some pieces of its ad technology business www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/t...

Did Trump and his billionaire friends make themselves richer by buying when stocks were down KNOWING they would go up w Trump’s plans? Who knows? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...

Did you hear about the Trump Card? You can buy yourself to a fast-track to US residensy for 5 mio dollars! timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/the... Also hear this very interesting and long interview w Howard lutnick, who says it is the brightest gov ever in the USA youtu.be/182ckTL2KBA?...

Can a stripped-down phone w no browser or apps make us more mindful and concentrated? Yes, but it won’t allow us to live in our societies who are more and more build around the smartphone making us dependent on them taking for granted we all have them…. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/t...

While Trump expects every country in the world will come to him, please him and negotiate the tariffs, France suggests that the EU put higher taxes on digital services from the US Here are some European alternatives dataethics.eu/european-tec... www.euractiv.com/section/tech...

After Trump’s tariff announcement tech stocks dived. Apple, Meta and Amazon fell about 9%, Nvidia 8%, Tesla more than 5%, Microsoft and Alphabet both fell about 2% and 4%, respectively. www.cnbc.com/2025/04/03/t...

Must read. Shows what is at risk for humans engaging emotionally w manipulative machines enhttps://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/artificial-intelligence-a-deadly-love-affair-with-a-chatbot-a-e5498031-c2b0-4da4-9192-65da9d3f40d6

Good for Signal Signal is experiencing massive downloads after the Atlantic was let into a group of high-ranking officials in the Trump administration….. techcrunch.com/2025/03/27/s...

Positive news on the Nordics, who are fast adopters of technology, we (still) trust each other, we cooperate, and we build small and mediumsized companies, so the power is widely spread and not concentrated on a few lunatics www.ft.com/content/50d4...

If you are lonely, you risk being even more lonely using chatbots, according to two new (not peer-reviewed) studies from chatbot maker OpenAI and MIT. We saw addictions w social media, now we're seing a new addiction w chatbots www.platformer.news/openai-chatg...

Your DNA is up for graps. Google-funded 23andMe is filing for bankrupcy. The CEO, who was once married to Google-founder and had two kids w him, is stepping down www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Many tech commentstors have scolded Apple for being behind in the 'AI race', there might be a sound reason for holding the horses; AI model needs to be small to fit in an iPhone and that is necessary if Apple is to live up to its privacy promise of on-device processing www.wired.com/story/to-tru...

A complaint to Norway’s Data authority and from Austrian NOYB says that ChatGPT violates GDPR’s principle on data accuracy by producing false information about individuals…. www.politico.eu/article/open...

Meta has used stolen books from a pirated book database LibGen to train Llama. So has OpenAI and thus Microsoft. LibGen was made for academics in underdeveloped countries, it is 17 years old and don't pay fines when they lose a case. #ai #genai www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Don’t use AI for search. Using large language models for search “take away transparency and user agency, further amplify the problems associated with bias, and often provide ungrounded and/or toxic answers that may go unchecked by a typical user.” www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...

Interesting read: An entire tourist industry has sprung up around Liang Wenfeng, the founder of the low-cost GenAI DeepSeek www.thetimes.com/world/asia/a...

Spot on media criticism. Even The New York Times falls for AI PR that AGI is near garymarcus.substack.com/p/hype-anthr...

DeepSeek is just as focused on developing AGI (Superintelligence) as its American competitors - just not for profit - 3 free reads on.ft.com/3XNzvS8

The first major test of the Trump administration’s approach to Big Tech’s power will be how it proceeds in the Google search case. A court has ruled that Google illegally maintained a monopoly by paying Apple, Mozilla and others to be standard search engine www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/t...

Not only dows Europe need to invest heavily in defense but also in tech sovereignty dataethics.eu/eurostack-re...

US study on the use if GenAI; it is use mostly by highly educated and the majority is worried about the future w AI in the workplace futurism.com/ai-work-educ...

Very good news. All Nordic AI-centers from Norway, Finland, Sweden, Iceland and Danmark have signed a memorandum of understanding. It means doing AI-research together, advice governments, create start-ups and develop languagemodels radar.dk/artikel/vil-...

AI and sustainability. Hallucinating chatbots. And a list of European tech alternatives. Sign up for our bi-monthly adfree newsletter on AI and data ethics ym0y.mjt.lu/nl3/hPf9Eiea...

OpenAI says the Chinese has developed a surveillance tool based on Meta’s open sourced Llama to detect criticism of China. So many questions pop up; Aren’t Trump, Putin and big tech not using the same tools? And why is this coming from OpenAI? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/t...

Alternatives to Google Maps: European Wego.here.com (also an app) Open Street Map Even Apple Maps though you support big tech then More tools: dataethics.eu/tools/ www.theverge.com/news/609772/...

The new plague: Zoom, Slack, Meta and transcription tool Otter have incorporated AI chatbots into group messaging for collaboration, automated meeting notes, real-time transcription, translation and task follow-ups. www.axios.com/2025/02/06/b...

Elon Musk calls it a ‘criminal organisation’ and spreads direct lies about USAid having paid celebrities millions of dollars to support Ukraine. Then he fires almost everybody. An agency that has done so much good in the world 😢 Free read. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/b...

If you want to track yourself use Oura coming from Finland and working w privacy that gives you autonomy over your digital life (data) www.axios.com/2025/02/04/o...

A European Solution to verify yourself online without compromising your privacy is coming up. And it is promising Thank you to @pernillet.bsky.social for inviting me into the ThinkTank 😀 dataethics.eu/on-the-inter...

Slash first, fix later. Elon Musk has brought his takeover tactics from Twitter to the federal government. The administration is already eliminating diversity initiatives, testing engineering prowess and demanding federal employee loyalty www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/t...