Was a pleasure to participate in the #iliadhackathon24 with OsloMet, Iliad Digital Twins of the Ocean and SINTEF Digital

🏆And the winner is…👋The #IliadHackathon24 has ended, and we are happy to announce the winners, where the different teams came together to create digital twins of the ocean and push the boundaries of ocean sustainability and innovation. ocean-twin.eu/hackathon-digi… #EU #Iliad #DTOs

As information comes in about the exploding beepers in Lebanon, it seems now more likely than not to be implanted explosives, not a hack. Why? Too many consistent, very serious injuries. If it were overheated batteries exploding, you'd expect many more small fires & misfires.

Here’s the guy! #NobelPrize2024

It has been one year since libertarian President Javier Milei took office in Argentina, and the nation’s science is facing collapse go.nature.com/4fa8sWT

An article we worked on a long time ago was finally published. We study simulations, social networks, and misinformation, focusing on how digital platforms shape societal dynamics and spread disinformation in Mali. journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.117…

Happy to be part of this.

This exciting paper presents an LLM-enabled framework for simulating human behavior, surpassing SIMS-like environments. Imho, it's the first real chance to study malicious AI bots in social networks. openreview.net/pdf?id=gS0hprh…

Would really like to be able to understand these better.

Tonight, my podcast with Geoffrey Hinton coming out. It's wild.

Years ago I wrote that the immediate problem with AI won't be AI, but the people in possession of it. The corporate power grab we currently see in the USA is only the beginning. I say a lot of nonsense but as the German idiom has it, even a blind chicken sometimes finds a grain.

I am a big Goeffrey Hinton believer and only hope he's not right youtube.com/watch?v=b_DUft……. Thanks Curt Jaimungal

I had a look at the party program of the AfD, that's the party that Musk supported. They're old-fashioned climate change deniers of the most idiotic kind. They still claim (in 2025!!) that the "The question for the human contribution [to climate change] is not settled." We left

The combination of #artificialintelligence and #socialmedia poses a threat to democracy. Our new paper explains how AI swarms can fabricate grassroots consensus, fragment shared reality, engage in mass harassment, interfer with elections, and erode institutional trust:

“How Malicious AI Swarms Can Threaten Democracy” We show how coordinated multi-agent LLM swarms can infiltrate communities, craft synthetic grassroots “consensus,” and erode institutional trust—and what we can do now to stop it. osf.io/preprints/osf/…

ALERTE : 19 chercheurs de très haut niveau alertent sur la menace que représentent pour les démocraties les essaims d’IA malveillantes (« Ai Swarms »), qui peuvent se coordonner, échapper à toute détection, créer des informations convaincantes, et manipuler les élections. 1/3

Recently, I read this beautiful #book, named Life as No One Knows It, by Sara Imari Walker and had a minor revelation that maybe we’ve been looking at life from a completely wrong lens. My notes 👇

Paper by Daniel Thilo Schroeder et al explores how malicious AI swarms might form a threat to democracy: buff.ly/wrYLwxy via coauthor @nachristakis

Exploring AquaINFRA's Tordera catchment & Llobregat Delta case study in Spain. We're developing integrated inland-marine models to tackle pollution, habitat degradation & climate change impacts. aquainfra.eu/case-studies/m… #Mediterranean #EnvironmentalResearch #HorizonEurope

Our paper is featured in this article on rogue AI agents and bot swarms: theneuron.ai/explainer-arti… Discussion here: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=443307…