The latest lateral expansion of private #AI labs / #tech #giants is into #economics! What an honour for the profession to be finally considered! (sarcasm) The trend is concerning: first, we witnessed the AI brain drain from CS to big tech (expected for PhDs, less expected for top professors) >>

Chapitre 2 - Pour l’Union européenne, il n’y a pas d’autonomie stratégique sans autonomie budgétaire ✍️ Olimpia Fontana & @svannuccini.bsky.social

Allez lire directement le rapport sur notre site. Merci beaucoup à tous les contributeurs (1/2): @pierrealayrac.bsky.social, @antonintd.bsky.social, @svannuccini.bsky.social‬, Olimpia Fontana, @maxkrahe.bsky.social‬, @paulmalliet.bsky.social, @alajanantti.bsky.social‬, @dzurstrassen.bsky.social

I mean, really do want to believe at some psychological level to those studies saying that socials do not polarise, but if you peek at anybody anywhere scrolling you just see slop, fake news, and derogatory content. Big tech has such a big responsibility for the descent of the west into autocracy

From 'exporting democracy' to 'exporting datacentre services' -the more the awareness on the need of #AI #decoupling advances in the #EU (even though the AI continent plan is still plagued by references to #AGI which are baseless)...

As the #AI arms race rages on due to #global #rivalries here's my take focused on the #EU: "Move Fast and Integrate Things:the Making of a European Industrial Policy for Artificial Intelligence"- I warn against 'double weaponisation' of IP &propose principles for a pro-(global) public goods posture!

Reminder: tomorrow Wed 14/5 4PM Paris time, @joshgans.bsky.social presents at our VOILA! #seminars @univcotedazur.bsky.social 'Does #AI Really Create an #Automation #Dilemma?' If you don't attend, it means you are not really interested in #artificialintelligence! So, register here and share!

We conclude Season 3 of VOILA! on 14/5 (4PM Paris/CEST) with a talk by super @joshgans.bsky.social on "Does #AI really create an #automation #dilemma?" Register below to attend online! Our multidisciplinary, inclusive series at the frontier of AI gets cooler by the day! @univcotedazur.bsky.social

Did you miss our latest VOILA! seminars @univcotedazur.bsky.social on #AI& the #economy? Catch-up with the recording! Lea Samek @oecd-ocde.bsky.social presented an encompassing research on: "how do #firms and #sectors engage with AI? #Innovation, #skills, and #use. @cnrscotedazur.bsky.social

The AI2027 exercise (ai-2027.com) is the n-tieth example of Silicon Valley inbued-thinking boys (even when they are not kids) extrapolating trends with back-of-the-envelope calculations to justify their unidimensional sci-fi dreams of AGI. >>

Cool @alexhanna.bsky.social post: AI slop is bad in absolute terms, but it also sends a signal: consumers (of ads, or info) matter nothing, we are just an appendix on which to vomit the crappiest of the content. Plus, the effort to process the info is now passed-through on us...

20,000 in ruby red Utah on their feet, in community, and ready to organize for a better world. A better world is possible.

Is the #computer a good metaphor for the #brain? That's pretty relevant for how we imagine and produce #AI. Spoiler: it's not a good metaphor :) Want to hear more? Listen to the recording of our last VOILA! seminar from Romain Brette @univcotedazur.bsky.social: youtu.be/mFO9fsduOl4?...

New VOILA! seminar tomorrow 2/4 4PMCEST! Lea Samek @oecd-ocde.bsky.social presents "How do #firms and #sectors engage with #AI? #Innovation, #skills and use"-a panoramic take on #artificialintelligence & the #Economy! Register: enquetes.univ-cotedazur.fr/index.php/27...! @univcotedazur.bsky.social

🧵 Stupratori alla Casa Bianca | @giuliab.bsky.social www.valigiablu.it/casa-bianca-... via @valigiablu.it

The aesthetic of postmodern conservatism is cringe and shitty, and that's why it matches so well with AI art: the slop is a product and complement of fascism. Truly great piece by @garethwatkins.bsky.social newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...

Should #AI really be such a cornerstone of #European #industrialpolicy? AI might underdeliver on expectations, but is the proxy for new #global rivalries power politics. Read more in my commentary-in a nutshell: more than #deeplearning the #EU needs deep pockets! www.csfederalismo.it/images/2025/...

New VOILA! (Visions Of InteLligence Artificielle) seminar, open and accessible because #AI should be for everyone! Romain Brette will discuss whether #computers are good metaphors for #intelligence. Link to register below - it's an initiative of EFELIA Côte d'Azur and my Chair!

Democracies stand with Ukraine.

How is it even possible to work or just exist when these fucking petty lame disrespectful bullies are at power? Dark times ahead, and no consolation that idiots are often the doom of themselves. So sorry for Zelensky, that is investing heart and body in a mission he never asked for.

German friends! Exercise one of the most foundational rights and vote the fascists out! We are not obliged to go through the worst outcome, and you can make your own destiny! Enjoy @janboehm.bsky.social and vote! youtu.be/DgPvWtvUZF8?...

That's not even a killer acquisition... the company was already on the deathbed. While on-device AI could still be a dominant design challenge to smartphones, we are not there yet at all, and the AI pin joins the valley of tears of failed AI projects...

I would have expected a different take on #AI from the @teamlabouruk.bsky.social gov, more focused on AI impacts on democracy and market concentration. Instead, besides the obvious pivot to security, the narrative is stuck on 2022's AGI (Anthropic surely plays a role). You can do better, guys!

Paywalled, but the title is enough: "Stop Worshiping the American Tech Giants" - the real giant is Lina Khan

Fancy an exploration of #artificialintelligence #industrial #dynamics? Tune in my seminar at @mioir.bsky.social on 24/2! I will talk about the #industrialization of #AI, #innovation, #policy, & applications to #robotics!

Tomorrow 5/2 4PM Paris time a new VOILA! #seminar w/ Heather Zheng SAND Labs on 'Protecting #Human Creatives Using #Adversarial #AI Tools' (#nightshade #glaze). Share, register and join us to learn how to resist AI #IP exploitation! #copyright #generativeai #creativecontent @clequesne.bsky.social

It is not a title from 'the onion', but it reads like - because reality of AI is more grotsque than fiction. Startup or incumbent, it is always time for a good old hypocrisy when your business is challenged! www.404media.co/openai-furio...

#Deepseek challenges #AI #oligopoly, but what about #resisting it? Our 1st VOILA! sem (5Feb 4PM Paris) features Heather Zheng (SANDLab) on 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗨𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗜 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀; she will present #nightshade #glaze projects as tools to safeguard copyright against #genAI! Register:

Bullies are so fragile: as all autocrats want to project force but rush to silence the smallest of the protesters, as all self-nominated alpha-male want to exert dominance but get offended at the first mini-critique, so the all-mighty billions-capex-spending tech giants get scrambled by DeepSeek >>

In the sad day of DT inauguration, I suggest to read this piece. No amount of money or power can save certain men from being cringe losers wishing spanks their favourite bully. All the new wave of masculinity-infused politics might be a (temporary) winner at the polls, but its incurably loser.

New season of VOILA! sem begins 5Feb 4PM (Paris time) w/ Heather Zheng (Director SAND Lab uchicago) talk: 'Experiences and lessons from protecting human creatives using #adversarial #AI tools'. Join us to discuss how #Glaze and #nighshade help constrasting the Gen-AI steal&flood- Register and share!

Issuing SDR has always been the way to go - even more, the way to go is to finally transform SDRs in what they were originally imagined: Keynes' Bancor aka a world currency. www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/i...

A 'new obscurantism' emerges as new normal under the sun instead of being safely confined- @anneapplebaum.bsky.social piece is maybe one of the best efforts to capture the ongoing reshaping of a large share of the world's mindframe. A description, not an explanation, but problems must be named first

We tend to consider platform enshittification as a continuous incremental decrepiting process, but it seems like it is instead a piece-wise quick jump into the abyss: edition.cnn.com/2025/01/07/t...

When does Europe go on vacation?

How are #robotisation and #Innovation related? #Robots might produce diseconomies of scope as they accelerate capacity expansion; innovation (in #AI) instead is reshaping #robotics -actors, strategies, software-hardware balance, as a LLM-based redomaning unfolds. Check the video of my latest talk!

Revised version of our paper with Bo Cowgill and Andrea Prat just out. We document how mergers in the US are followed by large and persistent increases in lobbying activity. Firms with market power also try to gain political power. www.nber.org/papers/w33255

What is the relationship between #robots & #innovation? Are #vision-language-models going to transform the #industry? You are still in time to register to my seminar taking place online&in-person TODAY (Mon 16/12 2-3PM Paris time): link below or in the poster! #AI #cotedazur

Sorry, but did I read right that Lisa Su of AMD and Jensen Huang and NVidia are cousins? What a family is that?! Besides: great profile of Su by @billyperrigo.bsky.social in TIME mag. It takes a woman to lead a serious business, move away peterpanish techbros, go to play at Mar-o-lago

While seriously supporting SKorean citizens' resistance against martial law installation attempt, I suggest also a silly kind of signal by linking 'APT' with its hands-dancing Italian antecedents: 'vola' by L Cuccarini and 'Gioca Jouer' by C Checchetto: more hands moving and less hands on democracy!

The ultimate compass to map the emerging rear-mirror-looking patriarchy-shielding manosphere. Ht @taylorlorenz.bsky.social podcast! These are mostly repressed millennials but how soon the alpha-gen wannabe alpha males will relabel themselves alpha^2?

Final lecture today of my #AI & #societal #transformation course in #Nice: we discussed AI ethics & rebuttals of tescreal views, AI as an acceleration engine to harm #democracy, AI #policy & #geopolitics, AI& #sustainability (w/ ref to @sashamtl.bsky.social @strubell.bsky.social work). Sneakpeek!

Super VOILA! sem @ UCoteAzur today: @susglickman.bsky.social presenting 70+ years of US #industrial #policy evols as insights 4 today's #AI: from the civilian conversion of defense research to VC-mantra to #semiconductor initiatives: read her paper @ainowinstitute.bsky.social &follow our activities!

Exploring an ad-driven business model is the likely path #OpenAI will follow to achieve profitability (besides government contracts): if you read #burnbook by @karaswisher.bsky.social it will sound familiar as a strategy -that's is precisely the evolution/playbook followed by early google

VOILA! seminar last reminder: register on the link below to attend @susglickman.bsky.social talk 'The #Politics of #Exponential #Growth: #AI, #Hardware and #Industrial #Policy' -from #semiconductors to AI it's time for an historically-informed, critical, sociotechnical view on current trends! >>

Did you already read @ainowinstitute.bsky.social report on #European #AI #Industrial #Policy? (W/ @ceciliarikap.bsky.social @cristinacaffarra.bsky.social &more) Here in Nice @leevisaari.bsky.social presented it to the UCôteD'Azur AI community in a cozy festive setting! Best present would be...