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Mirko Tobias Schäfer 🇪🇺Jan 31, 2025

Now the closing keynote by my colleague Antal van den Bosch at the National AI Conference with a beautiful reference in the title.

Mirko Tobias Schäfer 🇪🇺Jan 30, 2025

Kim van Sparrentak Jan 30, 2025

De AI-race lijkt nog lang niet gelopen te zijn. Kansen dus voor ethische en duurzamere Europese systemen.

https://fd.nl/politiek/1544043/europarlementarier-over-chinese-aiverrassing-kijken-we-net-naar-de-vs-gebeurt-het-achter-onze-rug

Europarlementariër over Chinese AI‑verrassing: ‘Kijken we net naar de VS, gebeurt het achter onze rug’

De race om kunstmatige intelligentie is nog volop gaande, zegt Kim van Sparrentak. Ze was in Brussel betrokken bij de totstandkoming van een wet die risico’s rond AI moet beteugelen.

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Mirko Tobias Schäfer 🇪🇺Jul 2, 2023

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Ben Waber Jun 30, 2023

Next was an engaging panel on engaging citizens in #AI development and impact assessment at @CPDPconferences with @gastev, Alyna Smith, Laura Galindo-Romero, and Jana Gajdosova. I like how many panelists pushed to move beyond citizens and considering migrants in this conversation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltaDETvTMDc (10/11)

WHOSE DIGITAL FUTURE? ENGAGING CITIZENS IN AI DEVELOPMENT AND IMPACT ASSESSMENT

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Mirko Tobias Schäfer 🇪🇺Jun 14, 2023

While the AI doomers were reading sci-fi novels, we Data School were developing impact assessments & audit processes, identifying empirically verified harms & real risks, and ways to mitigate them.
We do not write open letters but work on actual solutions to real problems

Mirko Tobias Schäfer 🇪🇺May 24, 2023

I'm at #CPDP2023 with several colleagues from @utrechtuniversity research area Governing the Digital Society. I'll be moderating the panel "Beyond Ethics Washing. Impact Assessments, Audits & Oversight for AI" on Friday morning at Area 42 Grand.
https://www.uu.nl/en/events/large-delegation-from-utrecht-university-at-cpdp-2023-conference

Large delegation from Utrecht University at CPDP 2023 conference

Numerous UU researchers are attending this major conference as organisers, moderators and speakers at various sessions.

Utrecht University

Mirko Tobias Schäfer 🇪🇺Feb 14, 2023

It has been often claimed that humanities & social sciences fall short in impactful research. At Utrecht Data School we do things differently! Our research approach is informed by close cooperation with external partners. It provides learning opportunities for students, responds to societal needs, delivers applicable results, and informs academic research. Here's an article on the opportunities and challenges of entrepreneurial research.

https://dataschool.nl/entrepreneurial-research (open access)

#Impact #research

Mirko Tobias Schäfer 🇪🇺Feb 4, 2023

Timo Seidl Feb 3, 2023

🚨Tech companies are increasingly involved in European (digital) security governance.

In our new JEPP article, @AObendiek and I try to understand why, tracing the effects of ideational business power in 2 case studies on #palantir and #gaiax.

The article is part of a timely and very rich special issue on the rise of the regulatory security state in Europe, edited by the amazing Andreas Kruck and Moritz Weiss.

🔗https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13501763.2023.2172060

The (False) promise of solutionism: ideational business power and the construction of epistemic authority in digital security governance

Digital technologies are transforming security governance, bringing new risks and opportunities. The resulting uncertainty creates interpretative contests about what these new challenges are and wh...

Taylor & Francis

Mirko Tobias Schäfer 🇪🇺Feb 3, 2023

Here is the English translation of the report by the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR) on AI as systems technology. With excellent analysis and recommendations for policy. Open access:
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-21448-6
#AI #policy #governance

Mission AI

This open access book provides a comprehensive overview of of AI and recommends eleven measures for governments to take up the challenge of embedding AI.

SpringerLink

Mirko Tobias Schäfer 🇪🇺Feb 3, 2023

Quite proud that our book has been downloaded 25k times. But I'm more excited that it led us to exciting, inherently interdisciplinary and publicly engaged research.

It is open access, and available here: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31843

#digitalmethods #dataanalysis #digitalhumanities

The Datafied Society. Studying Culture through Data

Mirko Tobias Schäfer 🇪🇺Jan 10, 2023

At Utrecht Data School, we often investigate political debates on social media. Last year, we reviewd these projects to understand better how "expertise" is constituted, projected and assigned across different platforms and topics. We identify new types of "experts" (at times unrelated to any specialized knowledge) and dynamics of assigning "expertise" based on ideological preferences.

https://dataschool.nl/en/expertise/

Expertise

Over the past years, Utrecht Data School has carried out several research projects where we were investigating communication patterns and fragmented audiences on social media. Examples for these projects are our inquiry into the Hydroxychloroquine debate, the media consumption choices of Dutch farmers, or debates on datacenters. In addition, we had worked with external partners who were interested in learning about the dynamic of fragmented audiences, knowledge dissemination, and their…

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