@xot Thanks Jaap-Henk this was suuuper usful today! :)

Do you think AI and platforms need better regulation? The University of Amsterdam starts with the Advanced Master’s in Technology Governance: go.uva.nl/4ajuohn 🚀. Submerge yourself in the emerging European technology regulation framework 🌍. Gain insights into how these frameworks impact economic, political, and material conditions in technology governance and how it shapes the landscape of tomorrow.

👉 go.uva.nl/4ajuohn

on my bucket list as an academic...

Important news:

#SorbonneUniversity will "discontinue its subscription to #WebOfScience publication database and #Clarivate bibliometric tools ... opening the way for open, free and participative tools." https://www.sorbonne-universite.fr/en/news/sorbonne-university-unsubscribes-web-science

Sorbonne's "choices are in line with those of @cwts, which has announced it is making openness of research information a priority, and is currently working on fully transparent and reproducible version of its rankings, based on open data from @crossref and @OpenAlex."

For those of you in Amsterdam! Next Friday, on the 8th of December we'll launch our new research project: Trust in the Digital Society! Two panels on trust in and by technology + a keynote by Caroline Nevejan, the Chief Scientist of Amsterdam! RSVP here: https://digitaltrust.uva.nl/content/events/2023/12/launch-event.html #trust #technology #UvA #IViR

Spread the word! We are starting a new! Advanced! LLM! in Technology Governance!

It is an interdisciplinary program: You can enter with a masters #degree in law or any other discipline, if you have studied #law or have relevant work experience! We teach the EU #technology #regulation framework, but also the non-legal forms of tech #governance: #markets, #institutions, #design. Small program, so we have limited capacity!

https://www.uva.nl/en/programmes/advanced-masters/technology-governance/technology-governance.html

Server farm (n): a place where human beings are farmed for their data by corporations.

See also: people farming.

#peopleFarming #BigTech #SiliconValley

The Algorithmic Resistance Research Group (ARRG!) is seeking collaborators! “Models for Making Distance” is a print zine gathering a multiplicity of manifestos, writing and instructions for art that confounds, confuses and misuses algorithmic systems for the pleasure of human observers or actors. It’s a playful but earnest bid for placing distance between ourselves and the tools designed to measure us. Deadline for submissions is December 1 2023. https://www.cyberneticforests.com/zine

Tom Barbereau presenting the first paper in the conference on DWeb utopias

Our two day conference "Governance by technology" just started in Amsterdam! A fantastic program on what comes after the realization that the #revolution #will #not #be #decentralized #gbt2023

https://easychair.org/smart-program/GbT-2023/

We are hiring for our Trust in the Digital Society project, this time a postdoctoral researcher with computer science background!

#trust #interdisciplinary #research #digital #infrastructure

Check it out and forward, please! https://vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Postdoctoral-Researcher-on-Trust-in-the-Digital-Society/769732402/

Call for Papers!

Governance by technology - the revolution will not be decentralized?

3-4 July, 2023, Amsterdam

We invite 500 word abstracts and panel submissions on one of the following topics:
- “Self-Sovereign” Identity / ID Governance
- Data Governance
- Governance of value exchange.
- Trust Governance
- Blockchain and IP Rights.
- (Institutional) Governance
- Investigating the Real-Existing Blockchain
https://easychair.org/cfp/GbT-2023

CfP: Governance by technology – the revolution will not be decentralized?

3-4 July, 2023, Amsterdam

We invite 500 word abstracts and panel proposals on the following topics:

- “Self-Sovereign” Identity / ID Governance.
- Data Governance
- Governance of value exchange.
- Trust Governance
- Blockchain and IP Rights
- (Institutional) Governance, or
- Investigating the Real-Existing Blockchain.

Full call and submissions: https://www.ivir.nl/cfp_blockchain_society_conference/

CfP: #Governance by technology - the #revolution will not be #decentralized? Is there anything to be salvaged from the overhyped #blockchain revolution?
3-4 July, 2023, Amsterdam

Send paper abstracts and panel proposals by the 15th of April!

https://easychair.org/cfp/GbT-2023

This position is part of a new research priority area at the University of Amsterdam: https://www.ivir.nl/trust-in-the-digital-society-new-uva-research-priority-area/

Are you interested in researching #trust in the digital society? Do you want to work in a 5 year interdisciplinary project at @UvA_Amsterdam? Then this job is for you! Two other postdoc positions (one in CS another in humanities soon to follow) https://vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Postdoctoral-researcher-studying-the-institutional-forms-of-societal-trust-in-the-digital-society/765778502/

Are you interested in researching #trust in the digital society? Do you want to work in a 5 year interdisciplinary project at @UvA_Amsterdam? Then this job is for you! Two other postdoc positions (one in CS another in humanities soon to follow) https://vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Postdoctoral-researcher-studying-the-institutional-forms-of-societal-trust-in-the-digital-society/765778502/

For the Dutch readers in my network, I was interviewed by De Correspondent's Maurits Martijn about the map below. I had the opportunity to rant about why i think it is insane to introduce AI models trained and benchmarked on predominantly US data into non-US countries' social, political, cultural, economic relations... 🤖 🤖 https://decorrespondent.nl/14252/dit-kaartje-laat-zien-waarom-we-niet-zo-hard-van-stapel-moeten-lopen-met-kunstmatige-intelligentie/438334512-df1d946d

#OpenAI launched a tool to ID AI-generated text. BUT it will yield a false positives and negatives. "In one example, given the first lines of the Book of Genesis, the software concluded that it was likely to be AI-generated. God, the first AI. "

A #trust tech designed to make another trust tech trustworthy turns out to be untrustworthy crating distrust in both itself & its target. but that's good. anything which make people distrust AI is fundamentally good.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/02/chatgpt-ai-detector-machine-learning-technology-bureaucracy/672927/

The carbon footprint of NFTs on Ethereum wasn’t looking great before The Merge, but it was nothing compared to on-chain Bitcoin NFTs

Yesterday Bitcoin mining company Luxor mined the largest block ever, containing almost exactly 4MB of data. Only 63 transactions could fit into the block, as the NFT used up the rest of the available space

The carbon footprint: ~888 metric tons of CO2, equivalent to the per passenger carbon footprint of taking a flight from New York to Tokyo and back - 466 times