DisinfoDocket 18 May
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Don't miss -
* The Transatlantic Dilemma: How to Pursue Autonomy Without Foreclosing Future Cooperation
* First hantavirus, now Ebola: What two outbreaks reveal about global preparedness
* How Much Power Does the EU AI Office Actually Have?
* The Transatlantic Dilemma: How to Pursue Autonomy Without Foreclosing Future Cooperation
* First hantavirus, now Ebola: What two outbreaks reveal about global preparedness
* How Much Power Does the EU AI Office Actually Have?
Highlights
- Revealed: the Facebook pages using AI to flood feeds with bizarre fake stories about politicians saving kennels, cafes and babies (Full Fact, 18 May)
- Why Is the Weaponization Report So … Normal? (Lawfare, 14 May)
- How Brazil is starting to rein in Big Tech (Coda Story, 13 May)
- Learning Network: Sorting Truth From Misinformation (The New York Times, 18 May)
1. Academia & Research
- Fusion-fission forecasts when AI will shift to undesirable behavior (arXiv, 14 May)
2. Platforms & Technology
- The Founders’ Case for Human Authorship in the Age of AI (Tech Policy Press, 15 May)
- India’s VCs are beating Silicon Valley at home (Rest of World, 15 May)
- OpenAI asks macOS users to update after TanStack npm supply chain attack (The Record, 14 May)
- Instant AI answers can trivialise human intelligence, warns Royal Observatory (BBC, 18 May)