📢 Don't miss today's #DiSCourseSeminar with guest speaker Melanie Fink from Leiden University on the Right to a Human Explanation of Algorithmic Decision-Making. 📢

The talk takes place at 15:00 at the Digital Science Center of @uniinnsbruck, Innrain 15, 6020 Innsbruck on the 1st floor.

More info: https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/disc/events/discourse-fink/

#DigitalScience #Innsbruck #EULaw #Justice #Regulation #DigitalTechnologies #Algorithms #DecisionMaking #AI #LeidenUniversity #Research

Join us on Monday 3 p.m. for another #DiSCourseSeminar:

💡 The Right to a Human Explanation of Algorithmic Decision-Making
👩 Melanie Fink, Associate Professor of European Law, Leiden University
📍 Onsite at the DiSC, Innrain 15, 1 Stock, Open Space Area
🔗: https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/disc/events/discourse-fink/

#DigitalScience #Innsbruck #EULaw #Regulation #DigitalTechnologies #Algorithm #DecisionMaking #AI #LeidenUniversity

Our institute got us together these past two days to discuss #innovation and #DigitalTechnologies and how to maintain students' creative focus, capacity for learning, problem solving, curiosity and other skills in the current digital scenario. It was helpful. Now I just saw this article which also helps! 😂👍

‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/mar/10/ai-impact-professors-students-learning

#ai #socialmedia #HigherEducation #learning

‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI

As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities – and society at large

The Guardian
Coeckelbergh, M. Technofascism: AI, Big Tech, and the new authoritarianism. AI & Soc (2026).
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-026-02862-9
#Fascism
#Authoritarianism
#AI
#BigTech
#Digitaltechnologies: #technofascism #tecnofascismo
Technofascism: AI, Big Tech, and the new authoritarianism - AI & SOCIETY

The rapid development of digital technologies, including AI, is having a significant impact on the social, economic, and political life. Yet, while presented as milestones in innovation and progress, these technological transformations have also introduced mechanisms of control, forms of organization, and ideological patterns that bear striking resemblances to historical fascist phenomena. Moreover, in parallel and increasingly intersecting with this development is a broader political context of fascist ideologies and strategies, populism, authoritarianism, and (other forms of) illiberalism in the West. Drawing from the classic philosophical and political theory literature on fascism, authoritarianism, and totalitarianism, this paper argues that and how features of contemporary digital technologies, their governance, and their political context mirror features of fascism. It concludes with a call to resist these new, anti-democratic forms of governance and domination, and make more systemic changes to both the development of technologies and the governance of tech and society.

SpringerLink

Karakalpakstan to Become Data Center Hub Under Uzbekistan’s Digital Strategy

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://timesca.com/karakalpakstan-to-become-data-center-hub-under-uzbekistans-digital-strategy/

Technology is Actually Pretty Great

Technology is great: it's the tech industry that's the problem. This post explores why we need to reject the Big Tech myth of inevitability.

https://leonfurze.com/2025/10/06/technology-is-actually-pretty-great/

Technology is great: it's the tech industry that's the problem. This post explores why we need to reject the Big Tech myth of inevitability. #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu #DigitalTech #DigitalTechnologies

https://leonfurze.com/2025/10/06/technology-is-actually-pretty-great/

Technology is Actually Pretty Great

Technology is great: it's the tech industry that's the problem. This post explores why we need to reject the Big Tech myth of inevitability.

Leon Furze