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Organisations are racing to embed AI into everyday life. But people don’t trust institutions and private enterprise to do this in a way that benefits them, and that’s a problem.
#technews #ai #privacy #trust #adalovelaceinstitute #iod #socialmedia
Organisations are racing to embed AI into everyday life. But people don’t trust institutions and private enterprise to do this in a way that benefits them, and that’s a problem.
#technews #ai #privacy #trust #adalovelaceinstitute #iod #socialmedia
Judge says #government may not search devices seized from #WashingtonPost #reporter
The ruling suggested that the federal judge in Virginia did not #trust the government [not this one anyway] to conduct a narrow search of Hannah Natanson’s devices.
#law #democracy #FreePress #journalism #Trump #authoritarianism #fascism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/02/24/washington-post-reporter-search/
Fediverse trust building
Looking for a suitable Pixelfed instance for an intl organization I realized that the vast majority of pixelfed servers do not specify who is running the instance. They all have "terms" but hardly any of them states who is on the other side of the "legally binding terms". Extremely few instances have an imprint.
With mastodon the situation is less bad but still far from inspiring confidence.
Sure, most people don't care about legal noise. Neither do I. It would improve people's trust in the fediverse, though, if every instance would tell its potential users who they are.
Social media infrastructures and right wing political attitudes
* The political effects of X’s feed algorithm
Gauthier, G., Hodler, R., Widmer, P. et al. The political effects of X’s feed algorithm. Nature (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10098-2
* A few weeks of X’s algorithm can make you more right-wing – and it doesn’t wear off quickly >>
https://theconversation.com/a-few-weeks-of-xs-algorithm-can-make-you-more-right-wing-and-it-doesnt-wear-off-quickly-276153
* The TESCREAL bundle ( Transhumanism, Extropianism, Singularitarianism, (modern) Cosmism, Rationalists ): Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence. "We argue that the normative framework that motivates much of this goal is rooted in the Anglo-American eugenics tradition of the twentieth century." >>
https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13636
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TESCREAL
#algorithms #SocialMedia #platforms #news #AI #transparency #accountability #HateSpeech #hate #FarRight #eugenics #TESCREAL #harm #SocialCohesion #trust #democracy
The political effects of X’s feed algorithm
Social media infrastructures and right wing political attitudes
* The political effects of X’s feed algorithm
Gauthier, G., Hodler, R., Widmer, P. et al. The political effects of X’s feed algorithm. Nature (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10098-2
* A few weeks of X’s algorithm can make you more right-wing – and it doesn’t wear off quickly >>
https://theconversation.com/a-few-weeks-of-xs-algorithm-can-make-you-more-right-wing-and-it-doesnt-wear-off-quickly-276153
* The TESCREAL bundle ( Transhumanism, Extropianism, Singularitarianism, (modern) Cosmism, Rationalists ): Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence. "We argue that the normative framework that motivates much of this goal is rooted in the Anglo-American eugenics tradition of the twentieth century." >>
https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13636
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TESCREAL
#algorithms #SocialMedia #platforms #news #AI #transparency #accountability #HateSpeech #hate #FarRight #eugenics #TESCREAL #harm #SocialCohesion #trust #democracy
The political effects of X’s feed algorithm
