๐Ÿ“ข Fantastic news from the Digital Science Center! ๐Ÿ“ข

The openโ€‘access paper โ€œMaximal Transparency for Online Recommender Systemsโ€ is out in Philosophy & Technology. A truly interdisciplinary effort across philosophy, bioinformatics, mathematics, computer science, and law.

Read the full article here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13347-026-01084-7

#RecommenderSystems #Transparency #AIEthics #OpenAccess #InterdisciplinaryResearch #Philosophy #Technology #EUAIAct
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Two teams from LIPN will present their joined work at IPMU 2026 ๐Ÿ‘.
Congratulations to Amal Beldi and Louenas Bounia for their work on Uncertainty-Aware Contextual Recommendation under Possible Worlds Semantics!
This paper proposes a probabilistic framework for uncertainty-aware contextual recommendation grounded in probabilistic database semantics.
#LIPN #RecommenderSystems #DecisionMaking
Future recommendation infrastructures must integrate evaluation protocols, fairness metrics, and reproducible pipelines as first-class design principlesโ€”not afterthoughts.
The paper โ€œWarpRecโ€ proposes a framework that unifies academic rigor with industrial-scale recommendation systems, aiming for responsibility, reproducibility, and efficiency at scale.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.17442v1
#RecommenderSystems #ResponsibleAI #MachineLearning

I hope other parties will support this common sense measure!

And fair play to the Hope and Courage Collective for the great work that they have been doing on this issue!

My article on @TheJournal goes into more detail on the harms that these toxic algorithms cause: https://www.thejournal.ie/prev/6901718/dvOJnni9c66MA/

#Ireland #IrishPolitics #Algorithms #RecommenderSystems #ToxicAlgorithms #SocialMedia #EUPolitics #Democracy #MentalHealth #Tech #TechRegulation

Opinion: Banning under-16s from social media is a half-measure. We should ban toxic algorithms

Australia is trying to ban teens from social media, but that only scratches the surface as a solution to the problems tech companies are causing us, writes Killian Mangan.

TheJournal.ie

I'm really happy to see political parties beginning to take toxic algorithms seriously!

We must force private, for-profit social media companies to turn off their recommender systems *for everyone* for good - so we can once again regain freedom to choose what we see online, like we had until 2014 when the doom spiral began!

https://www.fm104.ie/news/fm104-news/people-before-bill-targets-toxic-algorithms-harming-children/

#Ireland #IrishPolitics #Algorithms #RecommenderSystems #ToxicAlgorithms #SocialMedia #EUPolitics #Democracy #MentalHealth #Tech #TechRegulation

People Before Bill targets 'toxic' algorithms harming children

FM104

Paige Saunders @paige (rather than Dawn Walker @dawn as I erroneously wrote earlier!) has this great video, 'We Have An Algorithm Problem' at https://video.fedihost.co/w/a1522517-704e-44a3-aa0e-5c4e7d49e7d1, where he says that fediverse users' suspicion of algorithms is completely warranted, but now that we have been able to opt out of algorithmic content where we had zero agency, we need a conversation about what it means to opt in with algorithms under our own control.

#ContentAlgorithms #RecommenderSystems

We Have An Algorithm Problem

PeerTube

Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai)

์ผ๋ก  ๋จธ์Šคํฌ๊ฐ€ X์—์„œ 'ํ”„๋กฌํ”„ํŠธ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ(promptable)' ์•Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ˜์„ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ ์ค‘์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ํ™•์ธํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ํŠธ์œ—์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž์˜ ์ž์—ฐ์–ด ์ง€์‹œ๋ฅผ ๊ทœ์น™์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์—ฌ ํ”ผ๋“œ ๋…ธ์ถœ ์ˆœ์œ„๋ฅผ ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ•˜๋Š” ๋งž์ถคํ˜• ํ”ผ๋“œ(์ปค์Šคํ…€ ํ”ผ๋“œ) ์ˆœ์œ„ ์•Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ˜ ๋„์ž…์„ ์˜ˆ๊ณ ํ•˜๋Š” ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๊ฐœ์ธํ™”ยท์ถ”์ฒœ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ๋ฐœํ‘œ์„ฑ ๋‚ด์šฉ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/2012591538132639955

#x #elonmusk #personalization #recommendersystems #ai

Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai) on X

This will be incredible. Elon Musk just confirmed they are working on promptable algorithm for creating custom feeds on X. So the feed ranking algo will take a plain language instruction from you, then use it as a rule when choosing what to show.

X (formerly Twitter)
"Banning #socialmedia for young people will ignore the incredibly harmful societal effects of modern social media for most of the populationโ€ฆ
The most immediate solution is to ban companies from using #recommendersystems entirely (outside a few specific cases); that would restore our freedom to choose what we see online, and at least pause our descent into the years-long spiral towards increased extremism, misinformation, social media addiction & polarisation."
https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/opinion-social-media-ban-australia-go-further-recommender-systems-algorithm-6901718-Dec2025/
Opinion: Banning under-16s from social media is a half-measure. We should ban toxic algorithms

Australia is trying to ban teens from social media, but that only scratches the surface as a solution to the problems tech companies are causing us, writes Killian Mangan.

TheJournal.ie
Opinion: Banning under-16s from social media is a half-measure. We should ban toxic algorithms

Australia is trying to ban teens from social media, but that only scratches the surface as a solution to the problems tech companies are causing us, writes Killian Mangan.

TheJournal.ie

I love it when recommender systems are so chronically off that it just confirms the coming automated dystopian future we have built will be 90% Brazil and 10% LOTF.

#recommendersystems #researchgate #academia #academicchatter