AI, Media & Democracy Lab

Is the #AIAct's risk based approach the way forward for dealing with #ChatGPT & co? Our @Nhelberger@someone.elses.computer and @ndiakopoulos@hci.social share some proposals in their recent #InternetPolicyReview essay ⬇️
https://policyreview.info/essay/chatgpt-and-ai-act

We are happy to host the annual Mini Conference of the Junior Scholars Network on AI, Media & Democracy. Organisers @hannescools@mastodon.social and @AnnaSchjoett@akademienl.social started off by introducing the conference's topic: AI Infrastructures. We’re excited for what’s to come these next few days and will keep you updated!

Last week, @claesdevreese@mastodon.social briefed Dutch Minister for #Digitalisation @Alexandra@mastodon.nl about our Lab as part of her visit to #AmsterdamAI 💬💡

🚨Out now: A set of constructive suggestions for regulating General Purpose AI with the #AIAct. The result of an insightful workshop we organised together with @algorithmwatch@chaos.social in July, bringing together leading experts in the field. https://www.aim4dem.nl/regulating-generative-ai-in-the-ai-act-a-set-of-recommendations/

Join us in exploring the opportunities and threats of (generative) #AI to #democracy and European #elections on June 6, at 16:00 CEST. Featuring leading academic experts @KateDommett@mastodon.social & @claesdevreese@mastodon.social and POLITICO's AI and election expert Mark Scott.

Register here: rb.gy/nw9l9x

Our last #TuesdAI of the year took place at the @KNAW@akademienl.social. Special shout out to @claesdevreese@mastodon.social, for giving a tour of this historical place. Now, on to many productive #TuesdAIs at our homebase, the @uva_amsterdam@akademienl.social Institute for Advanced Study in the new year! 🎇

@AnnaSchjoett@akademienl.social @claesdevreese@mastodon.social @hannescools@mastodon.social @ndiakopoulos@hci.social @Nhelberger@someone.elses.computer @saraspaargaren@mstdn.social

Visiting member @ndiakopoulos@hci.social presenting at our #TuesdAI at IAS: "When aligning values with AI systems, there’s a lot of engineering, iteration, defining clearly, and including an evaluation loop that is just not quantitative". Thanks for sharing your insights, Nick!

What #AIinfrastructures should we study in the intersection of AI and news, and how? We're concluding our mini-conference today with a methodological panel (thank you to Bronwyn Jones, Mathias-Felipe De-Lima-Santos, Lisa Merete Kristensen, Theresa Seipp & Fernando van der Vlist) and collective brainstorming for ideas.

Day 2 of our #AIinfrastructures mini-conference was all about exchange, feedback, and new perspectives. Participants presented their ongoing research and engaged with inspirational discussants Helle Sjøvaag, Carl-Gustav Lindén and Jean-Christophe Plantin.

#Generated AI images that seem real, but are not. They're taking the internet by storm and @claesdevreese@mastodon.social reflected on the phenomenon with @rtlnieuws@mstdn.social yesterday. https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/nieuws/nederland/artikel/5374520/maanlanding-paus-artificial-intelligence-misinformatie-fake-news

A change in the narrative around #artificial #intelligence systems such as ChatGPT, and it's consequences for #human #knowledge. That's what our researcher @hannescools@mastodon.social advocates for today in De Morgen ⬇️
https://www.demorgen.be/meningen/nee-artificiele-intelligentie-en-chatgpt-vormen-geen-terminatorachtige-bedreiging~b0e97f3d/

🗣️ You can submit a paper for our #ICA23 preconference 'Building the conditions for responsible human-centric AI systems' until January 31st! More #info & the #callforpapers via https://icahdq.org/mpage/ICA23-BuildingConditions

🚨Vacancy alert!🚨

We are looking for a Postdoc Trustworthy Human-AI Interaction for Media and Democracy.

Candidates with a PhD in #computerscience, #humancomputerinteraction, #industrialdesign, #cognitivescience, or a related field, can apply here: https://cwi.nl/nl/jobs/vacatures/1088514/

We want to share more of our (ongoing) Lab research, which is why we will be launching a monthly newsletter next week!

📩Subscribe here: http://aim4dem.nl/newsletter

📄 Out now: 'The Amsterdam Paper: Recommendations for the technical finalisation of the regulation of GPAI in the AI Act'!

The result of a legal brainstorm session with AlgorithmWatch and many inspiring contributors accross the sciences. Read and download here: https://www.aim4dem.nl/the-amsterdam-paper-recommendations-for-the-technical-finalisation-of-the-regulation-of-gpai-in-the-ai-act/

🙏 A big thank you our panellists and everyone who attended part 3 of our discussion series 'The Impact We Generate' on Tuesday, exploring the implications of #GenerativeAI for #disinformation. More sessions will follow after the summer & stay tuned for Tuesday's recording.

In a few days, we're kicking off our discussion series 'The Impact We Generate', with a panel discussion on Legal Aspects of #Generative #AI. Check out our panellists and register via http://aim4dem.nl/events

🗣️ We're having a discussion series on Generative AI in Media and Journalism, called 'The Impact We Generate'. ✔️Register for the first session here https://eventbrite.nl/e/tickets-discussion-on-the-legal-aspects-of-generative-ai-566148103217… or check out the full description at http://aim4dem.nl/eventttps://www.eventbrite.nl/e/tickets-discussion-on-the-legal-aspects-of-generative-ai-566148103217

Happy new year to everyone here on #mastodon! Among other things, we look forward to the new case studies w/ our (media) partners and to start applying the #sandboxmethod for #humancentered AI tools in the media in #2023. To our (new) #colleagues, #partners and broader #community: ⬇️