I stand by this message now more than ever - even though initially I meant it more in terms of engagement with content, I'd stress the process part as well now, i.e. being an active bystander.

Wow apparently my article with Olya Kudina, Chiara Fonio and Kees Boersma on surveillance and Covid apps in Belgium and Netherlands is ranked within the top 10% of top downloaded papers published in the Journal Contingencies and Crisis management 🎉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Does the insufferable hype around AI also make you want to be a Luddite? Yet, at the same time you want to cultivate a positive stance towards our relation with technology? Join our reading group on Positive Luddism, co-organised by Alberto Romele and Critical Data Lab

An excellent opportunity to have an impact in AI ethics and governance space - 6 consultant positions at UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 on a range of AI topics, for 10 months, details below. Application deadline - April 17.

What fills us with hope is that this article is now being used in teaching in various different disciplines, and we have heard from many colleagues that it opens really interesting discussions. If you’re teaching with it, we would be very interested to hear how it’s going!

Interested in digital technologies, democratisation and EU enlargement and neighbourhood policy? Come and do a PhD with me and Gergana Noutcheva at FASoS Maastricht! It's a 4-year salaried position with the opportunity to design your own research project. vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastricht…

A great "promotion" for my talk on the environmental impact of AI during TU Delft | Faculteit Techniek Bestuur & Management GreenWeek lunch lecture later today - join Aaron Ding and me at TPM at 12:50, room Hall A. Spoiler alert, it will be about more-than-human ethics and relations, possibly 🐮😉

An exceptional training by Joey Velberg TAQT on #Diversity & #inclusion in organisations for TU Delft | Faculteit Techniek Bestuur & Management Works Council & the board of TU Delft OR. Tough lessons on "the inclusion marathon," giving tangible examples & making things traceable. This training is a must in academia.

Amazing keynote by Katrin Tiidenberg Katrin Tiidenberg @[email protected] on #trust and visuality in everyday digital life. So many connections with AI DeMoS Lab also on @[email protected], my brain is on 🔥🔥🔥

On May 27th, we welcome Olya Kudina (TU Delft AI DeMoS Lab also on @[email protected]) to UAntwerpenFLW for a talk on how to meaningfully integrate LLMs (e.g. ChatGPT) in higher (philosophy) education. All who seek inspiration about this urgent and challenging topic, be welcome!

Thank you Olya Kudina for inspiring us today with an insightful and critical reflection on the opportunities and risks of integrating chatGPT in our educational programmes. I look forward to putting these ideas to practice at UAntwerpenFLW!

Met iedere versie worden AI-tools beetje menselijker. Olya Kudina in NOS: "Als je ziet hoe de nadruk wordt gelegd op het menselijke aspect, dan is dat voor mij als spelen met vuur." nos.nl/artikel/252100…

We are super delighted to welcome David Gray Widder at TU Delft who will be talking about "AI Supply Chains: Glued to Big Tech, Disavowing War" Location TU Delft | Faculteit Techniek Bestuur & Management Hall E Thursday, 13th of June You can register here edu.nl/ja4t3 Join us! Paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Want to know more about AI & climate? Join the next TU Delft AI Lunch on the unprecedented environmental impacts of AI: a transdisciplinary discussion with Benedetta Brevini, Olya Kudina, June Sallou and Roel Dobbe @[email protected] on July 2nd. Register via: tudelft.nl/en/events/2024…

Happy to share an OA article, wrapping up our special issue with Ibo van de Poel on AI as sociotechnical systems in Minds & Machines: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

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Open Access all the way! The EU is making great strides in this. I'm currently in the US and when I talk about #OpenAccess, I'm most frequently faced with surprise and the "why bother" remarks. Proud of our work at diamond OA JournalHumTech TU Delft OPEN Publishing Peter-Paul Verbeek

"Democratiz[ing] the ability to conduct [AI] evaluations" or free labor? It's commendable that a US agency seeks to engage the broad public, especially "less represented groups" in AI evaluations - but not if red teaming is systematically unpaid. wired.com/story/nist-hum…

Onze universiteiten helpen Nederland vooruit. Maar de bezuinigingen van het kabinet brengen die vooruitgang ernstig in gevaar en dreigen alles wat we samen hebben opgebouwd te laten instorten. Samen met alle universiteiten starten wij daarom deze campagne. Stop de bezuinigingen

A new paper with Bas de Boer Bas de Boer! When we started working on this, it was GPT2 we had in mind. Even though GenAI exploded since then, our point still stands - LLMs challenge conditions of engaging in politics & contribute to political de-skilling: link.springer.com/article/10.100…