Happy to be part of this amazing speaker series organized by Utrecht University, especially @fabianlferrari.bsky.social . I'll talk about Latin American Critical AI studies. I'll be in such great company with @nsrnicek.bsky.social and @anavaldi.bsky.social cdh.uu.nl/event/cdh-on...

China shuts down AI tools during nationwide college exams

Have a new piece on social media's lessons for the governance of generative AI in Information, Communication, and Society, co-authored with Suher Adi. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/MBACG...

Essential reading from @marietjeschaake.bsky.social on OpenAI’s instrumentalisation of democratic language to expand its market power around the world, and the huge geopolitical risks countries expose themselves to by becoming dependent on its AI models and data centres. on.ft.com/4dNpQBN

Probably the most surprising thing about this confrontation is that it took more than 180 days to happen

"In Silicon Valley, some investors ask whether the AI infrastructure boom will become what fibre optic cables were to the dotcom era." www.ft.com/content/0e24...

Who decides what counts as theft when AI copies your style? Check out the first paper of our special issue on generative AI governance co-edited with @joannekuai.bsky.social!

The US cloud is not inevitable www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Elon Musk’s DOGE is tearing through the US government with disastrous consequences. But beyond its borders, the extreme right is gearing up to push their own DOGE-inspired austerity campaigns in countries around the world.

It’s great to see this piece published in Platforms & Society: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... It nicely brings critical platform scholarship into conversation with the lit. on state capitalism and techno-colonialism, through a rich case study set in post-pandemic Greece.

A narrow regulatory focus on misinformation distracts from addressing structural problems in the AI industry. My chapter in the FEPS Progressive Yearbook 2024. bit.ly/ai-infrastru...

Together with Joanne Kuai, I'm editing a special issue on generative AI governance in Information, Communication & Society. Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2024 Details: bit.ly/generative-a...

Our new paper in New Media & Society: "Observe, inspect, modify: Three conditions for generative AI governance" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

At least 16 countries have already experimented with using generative AI to mislead their citizens: www.platformer.news/p/how-author...

This is a REALLY BIG DEAL for ethical AI! And REALLY HARD TO EXPLAIN. Especially in a skeet. 1 - WATERMARKING FOR GEN AI! 2 - EMBEDDED "NUTRITION LABELS" IN GEN AI (does that tl;dr work?) www.globenewswire.com/news-release... 🧵