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Digital Sugar: Consequences of unethical recommender systems

Introduction We are spending more and more time online. The average internet user spends over 2 hours on social networking platforms daily. These platforms are powered by recommendation systems, complex algorithms that use machine learning to determine what content should be shown to the user based on their personal data and usage history. In the […]

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The Era of Polarization: How Social Media’s Hidden Algorithms are Tearing Society Apart

Have you ever heard the phrase “we are what we eat”? The truth is that this saying does not only apply to the physical world but also to our digital lives. Every day, we feed our brains with the content that we consume online, particularly on social media. Our reality is constantly being shaped by […]

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Power & Democracy

The Shadow Players of Politics: AI, LLMs, and the Rise of Digital Propaganda

In 2016, Donald Trump was elected president to the USA. Many media outlets discussed his extreme political views, but rarely discussed his strategy to win the vote. Were Americans just bigoted? Did Trump rig the elections? Was Trump just charismatic? Or maybe his views are just right!.. I beg to differ. While all can be […]

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Human & Machine

Navigating the AI Landscape: The Imperative for Purpose-Driven Development

Purpose-Driven AI, as in the sense of the term, serves a purpose. It is Artificial Intelligence that is specifically designed and created to solve a task or fulfill a need. This approach ensures that the technology can showcase a remarkable level of knowledge and innovation, but also have a practical application, in being used for […]

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Discrimination by Design: The Dangers of AI in Decision Making

Already at our doorstep! Artificial intelligence, it seems as if there does not go by a day without hearing or reading news about it. AI algorithms have received increasing attention in recent years, mainly because of the many advances that have been made in the field. AI algorithms can perform a growing range of tasks […]

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Power & Democracy

Poor AI literacy : A real threat to democracy

The term literacy originally refered to the ability to read and communicate using written language. In the past decades, literacy has been used with increasing flexibility to encompass a variety of skills and knowledge within many disciplines, from scientific literacy to digital literacy, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) literacy. This article focuses on AI literacy, which […]

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Human & Machine

AI in Social Media Causes Mental Health Issues

We have all experienced it at one time or another, when we briefly needed to check something on our phone, opened our favorite app out of curiosity and got caught by an AI algorithm. Before you know it, you are an hour away, completely distracted from your original purpose for which you grabbed your phone in the first place. As this is a persistent problem these days, we will discuss the negative effects of AI in social media on one’s mental health in this article.

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Power & Democracy

Any system that has any form of Artificial Intelligence in its composition should pass several layers of legal and technical regulations

Artificial intelligence is becoming more and more pervasive and advanced. A lot of new impressive AIs have been published recently, such as ChatGPT, DALLE and Prime Voice AI. All these systems have one thing in common: they try to mimic human intelligence and in turn produce works that are as good as human creations or […]

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The Invisible Pandemic: How AI in social media is diminishing the mental health of our children

“Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls” This is what the caption reads of an article in the Wall Street Journal which shocked the world in September of last year. In the article, internal research by Facebook (the parent company of Instagram) reveals that their social media app makes body image issues worse for […]

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War & Peace

The modern weapons of “mass” destruction: Autonomous Weapon Systems (AWS)

Data is beautiful. Through the use of scientific methods and algorithms we extract knowledge and insights from structured and unstructured data. Did you know that 90% of world’s data had been generated in the past two years? This explosion of information known as “Big Data” is completely transforming the world around us. Back in 1940 […]

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