Manipulation
Big Brother is watching you!
- W. van Dooren & T. Ferrari Castiglione
- February 1, 2021
It’s a nice summer day, you wake up, and you’ve been talking to your friends for several days about going to the beach. You check your phone before driving to the beach and show your friends a funny video you found on YouTube; an advertisement immediately pops up showing you some product to entice you […]
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Watch it! How algorithms control your life.
- Romy Vos & Wesley Sieraad
- January 30, 2021
Have you ever clicked on a video on Youtube because it was among the recommended videos? Or started following an account on Twitter because it was in the list of ‘suggested follows’, then you have, unconsciously, let an algorithm guide your decision. And you are not alone, millions of connections are made every day, […]
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The threat of AI to democracy and what we should do about it
- Giulia Bössenecker & Sebastian Wiesner
- January 30, 2021
New achievements in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) continue to present humanity with extraordinary challenges. AI is already influencing our democratic processes, and this influence will become even more significant in the future. Researchers in the field of AI are currently making amazing progress. But talking to researchers working in this field, we often […]
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