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Valère Ndior @hvaloche.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Teens spending "up to seven hours a day" with companion AI... This will lead to psychological disasters.

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 22/07/2025

New: As Trump prepares to unveil his "AI Action Plan," more than 80 labor, environmental, consumer and tech watchdog groups have signed on to a "People's AI Action Plan" that calls for regulations that put ordinary people's interests over those of the industry. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Analysis | Trump’s ‘Artificial Intelligence Action Plan’ is already stirring debate

Critics unveiled their own “People’s AI Action Plan” ahead of new executive orders expected to address energy and “woke” AI.

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Nanna B Thylstrup @nannathylstrup.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

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Mathieu Fasel @faselmathieu.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

New article with @soweerts.bsky.social! We examine the relationships between states/social media platforms over time and propose a framework to make sense of them - at a time when these relationships are starting to pose serious threats to democratic values and the rule of law. shorturl.at/J4Mgk

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Between regulation, pressure and collaboration: the public–private entanglement in content moderation

This paper examines the evolving roles of states in content moderation and their complex relationships with social media platforms over time. As these…

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Sophie Weerts @soweerts.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

📣 Are you a young researcher working on technology & interested in its social, democratic, and environmental impacts and their regulation? ✨ Join us for the Law and Society conference at the University of Lausanne on December 15, 2025! 😀 We will discuss your paper api.unil.ch/newsunil/v1/...

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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Very pleased to say Paul Gooding, @semames.bsky.social and I are looking for a PhD student, funded by AHRC @sgsah.bsky.social. Topic: '“Mainlining AI into the Veins”? Library collections as data in the age of Extractive AI Capitalism'. Closing 5pm, Friday 30th May 2025. Please share!

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SGSAH Collaborative Doctoral Award Studentship

PhD Title: “Mainlining AI into the Veins”? Library collections as data in the age of Extractive AI Capitalism Funding body: AHRC Deadline for applications: 5pm, Friday 30th May…

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Sophie Weerts @soweerts.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

A simple and very relevant plan of @jksteinberger.bsky.social Trump and Musk have ushered in the era of cataclysm capitalism. But I have a plan to counter it

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Rosamunde Van Brakel @rosamundevb.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

The consequences of this kind of algorithmic surveillance can be better understood by approaching harm as rhizomatic. By doing so, it becomes clear that the current individualistic legal framework falls short and technology isn’t the only issue see journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Exploring the impact of algorithmic policing on social justice: Developing a framework for rhizomatic harm in the pre-crime society - Rosamunde Van Brakel, Lander Govaerts, 2024

This article aims to contribute to digital criminology by proposing a framework of rhizomatic harms of algorithmic policing. We propose to expand zemiologist in...

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Sophie Weerts @soweerts.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Cambridge University Press has launched a new journal on Law and AI (Cambridge Forum on AI: law and gouvernance). The first issue just published www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Comparative Perspectives on the Regulation of Large Language Models

Welcome to Cambridge Core

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Sophie Weerts @soweerts.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

If you are looking for a #PhD position, are interested by #tech, want to investigate #safeinnovation from a regulatory and legal perspective, join me for working on #regulatorysandboxes 👇🏻 submit your application on the platform of the #university of lausanne

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Sophie Weerts @soweerts.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

This comment comes at just the right time. On 25 November, the #law&society initiative of the #universityoflausanne is organising a conference on #academicfreedom. Dr. Raffaela Kunz is taking part in our conference. I look forward to listening to her. 👉 api.unil.ch/newsunil/v1/...

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Stefan Schlegel @stefanschlegel.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

In der Kulturkampf-Rhetorik um die Wissenschaft kommt sie immer zu kurz: Die Wissenschaftsfreiheit. @odileammann.bsky.social & ich sind drum stolz, dass wir eine Kommentierung (und engagierte Verteidigung) der Wissenschaftsfreiheit von R. Kunz publizieren können: onlinekommentar.ch/de/kommentar...

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Sophie Weerts @soweerts.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Brussels airport is apparently a good place to reaffirm European values

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Sophie Weerts @soweerts.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

📣 If you have a legal background, are interested by social sciences and want to pursue a PhD, come to work with me on my research project on #regulatorysandboxes for #AI in #publicadministration funded by the #SNF at the university of lausanne ! 👉 career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

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Opportunités de carrière : PhD Position (100%) in SNSF Research Project "Regulating the Algorithmic State with Regulatory Sandb (21912)

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Sophie Weerts @soweerts.bsky.social · 09/08/2024

Nafissatou Thiam, the biggest champion (heptathlon) of the Paris olympics … well done Nafi you are a genius !! So so proud ! 🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪 « Une récompense pour tout le travail, les efforts et la douleur » : Nafissatou Thiam après son titre olympique

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Sophie Weerts @soweerts.bsky.social · 12/03/2024

Happy to share the last piece of our collaboration on #OGD focusing on the #DGA with the excellent Clarissa Valli Buttow content.iospress.com/articles/inf...

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Mathieu Fasel @faselmathieu.bsky.social · 23/01/2024

Conférence ayant lieu ce jeudi à l‘IDHEAP! Il est encore possible de venir même si vous n’êtes pas inscrit - n’hésitez pas à en informer la Professeure Sophie Weerts @soweerts.bsky.social par mail (sophie.weerts@unil.ch) ou moi-même (mathieu.fasel@unil.ch).

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ICON•S @icon-s.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

Are you a First Generation Academic? Join the next ICON•S event with Aua Baldé, Tarun Khaitan & @silviasteininger.bsky.social for a conversation on how to navigate the waters of legal academia 🗓️13 Dec.|🕗11:00 CET |💻Online Register here➡️ icon-society-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 10/12/2023

The EU AI Act survived final negotiations, which wrapped Friday. To understand what was agreed, Justin Hendrix spoke to Luca Bertuzzi, who has followed the AI Act since its introduction in 2021 and was in Brussels for the trilogue.

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Europe Advances Its AI Act | TechPolicy.Press

A conversation with EURACTIV technology editor Luca Bertuzzi.

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Sophie Weerts @soweerts.bsky.social · 24/11/2023

Interesting article about the lobbying activities in the legislative procedure with #AIA. It gives context to understand some political positions 👉 Tech lobbying is derailing the AI Act www.socialeurope.eu/big-tech-lob...

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Big Tech lobbying is derailing the AI Act

Behind closed doors, the companies have fiercely lobbied the European Union to leave advanced artificial-intelligence systems unregulated.

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Sophie Weerts @soweerts.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

❗️AIA still under discussion this week due to generative AI. 👉 algorithmwatch.org/en/op-ed-gen...

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Mark Klamberg @klamberg.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

Vacancy for an associate lecturer (biträdande lektor) in international law or political science at Stockholm University. Please share information about this. Closing date 15 January 2024. Announcement in English: www.su.se/english/abou... Announcement in Swedish: www.su.se/om-universit...

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Available jobs - Stockholm University

Available jobs at Stockholm University. PhD student positions, researchers, teachers and administrative staff.

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Sophie Weerts @soweerts.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

Very excited to start working with alicia pastor y Camarasa at the crossroads btw AI & legislative studies. If it is one of your research streams, do not hesitate to contact us news.unil.ch/display/1695...

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David Bamman @dbamman.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

This might be flying under the radar (so please RT!), but the US Copyright Office is soliciting comments for its decisions on training ML/NLP/AI systems on copyrighted material (even *non*-generative AI). They need to hear from researchers, so please comment! Deadline Oct 30. www.copyright.gov/ai/

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Linda Bos 🟥 @lindabos.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

Two postdoc positions on AI & Politics at the University of Amsterdam: www.academictransfer.com/nl/332516/tw...

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Sophie Weerts @soweerts.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

Coming back from St Gall with small kindnesses after discussing #AI in courts at the Swiss federal administrative court with great people and wonderful hospitality

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Sophie Weerts @soweerts.bsky.social · 17/09/2023

In 🇨🇭this weekend is the “jeûne federal” (federal fasting). Monday is a day off (except in Geneva, they are special 😉). you are supposed to only eat #prune tart. However, I received an 📩 to discuss the development of #AI in Switzerland....let see tomorrow 🕘

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Sophie Weerts @soweerts.bsky.social · 11/09/2023

Good morning bluesky community! Let’s start this new experience…😉

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