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Simone Vannuccini @svannuccini.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

The latest lateral expansion of private #AI labs / #tech #giants is into #economics! What an honour for the profession to be finally considered! (sarcasm) The trend is concerning: first, we witnessed the AI brain drain from CS to big tech (expected for PhDs, less expected for top professors) >>

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Institut Avant-garde @ecoavantgarde.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Chapitre 2 - Pour l’Union européenne, il n’y a pas d’autonomie stratégique sans autonomie budgétaire ✍️ Olimpia Fontana & @svannuccini.bsky.social

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Institut Avant-garde @ecoavantgarde.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Allez lire directement le rapport sur notre site. Merci beaucoup à tous les contributeurs (1/2): @pierrealayrac.bsky.social, @antonintd.bsky.social, @svannuccini.bsky.social‬, Olimpia Fontana, @maxkrahe.bsky.social‬, @paulmalliet.bsky.social, @alajanantti.bsky.social‬, @dzurstrassen.bsky.social

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Simone Vannuccini @svannuccini.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

I mean, really do want to believe at some psychological level to those studies saying that socials do not polarise, but if you peek at anybody anywhere scrolling you just see slop, fake news, and derogatory content. Big tech has such a big responsibility for the descent of the west into autocracy

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Simone Vannuccini @svannuccini.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

From 'exporting democracy' to 'exporting datacentre services' -the more the awareness on the need of #AI #decoupling advances in the #EU (even though the AI continent plan is still plagued by references to #AGI which are baseless)...

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Simone Vannuccini @svannuccini.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

As the #AI arms race rages on due to #global #rivalries here's my take focused on the #EU: "Move Fast and Integrate Things:the Making of a European Industrial Policy for Artificial Intelligence"- I warn against 'double weaponisation' of IP &propose principles for a pro-(global) public goods posture!

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Simone Vannuccini @svannuccini.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

The AI2027 exercise (ai-2027.com) is the n-tieth example of Silicon Valley inbued-thinking boys (even when they are not kids) extrapolating trends with back-of-the-envelope calculations to justify their unidimensional sci-fi dreams of AGI. >>

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AI 2027

A research-backed AI scenario forecast.

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Simone Vannuccini @svannuccini.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Cool @alexhanna.bsky.social post: AI slop is bad in absolute terms, but it also sends a signal: consumers (of ads, or info) matter nothing, we are just an appendix on which to vomit the crappiest of the content. Plus, the effort to process the info is now passed-through on us...

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I Hate Wasting Time on Identifying AI Slop

I Hate Wasting Time on Identifying AI Slop By Alex I hate spending time trying to decipher if something is AI slop or not. I do not enjoy that I need to...

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

20,000 in ruby red Utah on their feet, in community, and ready to organize for a better world. A better world is possible.

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Simone Vannuccini @svannuccini.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Is the #computer a good metaphor for the #brain? That's pretty relevant for how we imagine and produce #AI. Spoiler: it's not a good metaphor :) Want to hear more? Listen to the recording of our last VOILA! seminar from Romain Brette @univcotedazur.bsky.social: youtu.be/mFO9fsduOl4?...

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VOILA! S03E03 : "Brains beyond computers" par Pr Romain Brette

YouTube video by Université Côte d'Azur

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Simone Vannuccini @svannuccini.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

New VOILA! seminar tomorrow 2/4 4PMCEST! Lea Samek @oecd-ocde.bsky.social presents "How do #firms and #sectors engage with #AI? #Innovation, #skills and use"-a panoramic take on #artificialintelligence & the #Economy! Register: enquetes.univ-cotedazur.fr/index.php/27...! @univcotedazur.bsky.social

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Simone Vannuccini @svannuccini.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

The aesthetic of postmodern conservatism is cringe and shitty, and that's why it matches so well with AI art: the slop is a product and complement of fascism. Truly great piece by @garethwatkins.bsky.social newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...

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AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism

It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.

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Simone Vannuccini @svannuccini.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Should #AI really be such a cornerstone of #European #industrialpolicy? AI might underdeliver on expectations, but is the proxy for new #global rivalries power politics. Read more in my commentary-in a nutshell: more than #deeplearning the #EU needs deep pockets! www.csfederalismo.it/images/2025/...

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Simone Vannuccini @svannuccini.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

New VOILA! (Visions Of InteLligence Artificielle) seminar, open and accessible because #AI should be for everyone! Romain Brette will discuss whether #computers are good metaphors for #intelligence. Link to register below - it's an initiative of EFELIA Côte d'Azur and my Chair!

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 01/03/2025

Democracies stand with Ukraine.

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Simone Vannuccini @svannuccini.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

How is it even possible to work or just exist when these fucking petty lame disrespectful bullies are at power? Dark times ahead, and no consolation that idiots are often the doom of themselves. So sorry for Zelensky, that is investing heart and body in a mission he never asked for.

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Video: Trump, Zelensky and Vance Argue Over Ukraine War

President Trump and Vice President JD Vance scolded President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine during a meeting in the Oval Office on Friday, claiming he was not grateful enough for U.S. aid.

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Simone Vannuccini @svannuccini.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

German friends! Exercise one of the most foundational rights and vote the fascists out! We are not obliged to go through the worst outcome, and you can make your own destiny! Enjoy @janboehm.bsky.social and vote! youtu.be/DgPvWtvUZF8?...

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Jan Böhmermann – “Faschismus is back” | ZDF Magazin Royale

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Simone Vannuccini @svannuccini.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

That's not even a killer acquisition... the company was already on the deathbed. While on-device AI could still be a dominant design challenge to smartphones, we are not there yet at all, and the AI pin joins the valley of tears of failed AI projects...

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Simone Vannuccini @svannuccini.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

I would have expected a different take on #AI from the @teamlabouruk.bsky.social gov, more focused on AI impacts on democracy and market concentration. Instead, besides the obvious pivot to security, the narrative is stuck on 2022's AGI (Anthropic surely plays a role). You can do better, guys!

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Remarks made by Technology Secretary Peter Kyle at the Munich Security Conference

Technology Secretary Peter Kyle spoke about the the UK’s approach to the responsible development of artificial intelligence at the Munich Security Conference.

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Simone Vannuccini @svannuccini.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Fancy an exploration of #artificialintelligence #industrial #dynamics? Tune in my seminar at @mioir.bsky.social on 24/2! I will talk about the #industrialization of #AI, #innovation, #policy, & applications to #robotics!

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Simone Vannuccini @svannuccini.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Tomorrow 5/2 4PM Paris time a new VOILA! #seminar w/ Heather Zheng SAND Labs on 'Protecting #Human Creatives Using #Adversarial #AI Tools' (#nightshade #glaze). Share, register and join us to learn how to resist AI #IP exploitation! #copyright #generativeai #creativecontent @clequesne.bsky.social

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Simone Vannuccini @svannuccini.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

It is not a title from 'the onion', but it reads like - because reality of AI is more grotsque than fiction. Startup or incumbent, it is always time for a good old hypocrisy when your business is challenged! www.404media.co/openai-furio...

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OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us

OpenAI shocked that an AI company would train on someone else's data without permission or compensation.

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Simone Vannuccini @svannuccini.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

#Deepseek challenges #AI #oligopoly, but what about #resisting it? Our 1st VOILA! sem (5Feb 4PM Paris) features Heather Zheng (SANDLab) on 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗨𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗜 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀; she will present #nightshade #glaze projects as tools to safeguard copyright against #genAI! Register:

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Simone Vannuccini @svannuccini.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Bullies are so fragile: as all autocrats want to project force but rush to silence the smallest of the protesters, as all self-nominated alpha-male want to exert dominance but get offended at the first mini-critique, so the all-mighty billions-capex-spending tech giants get scrambled by DeepSeek >>

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Simone Vannuccini @svannuccini.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

In the sad day of DT inauguration, I suggest to read this piece. No amount of money or power can save certain men from being cringe losers wishing spanks their favourite bully. All the new wave of masculinity-infused politics might be a (temporary) winner at the polls, but its incurably loser.

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I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl

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Simone Vannuccini @svannuccini.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

New season of VOILA! sem begins 5Feb 4PM (Paris time) w/ Heather Zheng (Director SAND Lab uchicago) talk: 'Experiences and lessons from protecting human creatives using #adversarial #AI tools'. Join us to discuss how #Glaze and #nighshade help constrasting the Gen-AI steal&flood- Register and share!

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Simone Vannuccini @svannuccini.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Issuing SDR has always been the way to go - even more, the way to go is to finally transform SDRs in what they were originally imagined: Keynes' Bancor aka a world currency. www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/i...

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A No-Brainer for Global Growth and US Jobs | by Joseph E. Stiglitz & Mark Weisbrot - Project Syndicate

Joseph E. Stiglitz & Mark Weisbrot call for a new issuance of the International Monetary Fund’s international reserve asset.

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Simone Vannuccini @svannuccini.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

A 'new obscurantism' emerges as new normal under the sun instead of being safely confined- @anneapplebaum.bsky.social piece is maybe one of the best efforts to capture the ongoing reshaping of a large share of the world's mindframe. A description, not an explanation, but problems must be named first

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The New Rasputins

Anti-science mysticism is enabling autocracy around the globe.

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Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

When does Europe go on vacation?

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Simone Vannuccini @svannuccini.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

How are #robotisation and #Innovation related? #Robots might produce diseconomies of scope as they accelerate capacity expansion; innovation (in #AI) instead is reshaping #robotics -actors, strategies, software-hardware balance, as a LLM-based redomaning unfolds. Check the video of my latest talk!

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Forum Numerica - Simone Vannuccini - Robots and Innovation – Innovation in Robots?

YouTube video by EUR DS4H - Digital Systems for Humans

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Tommaso Valletti @tomvalletti.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Revised version of our paper with Bo Cowgill and Andrea Prat just out. We document how mergers in the US are followed by large and persistent increases in lobbying activity. Firms with market power also try to gain political power. www.nber.org/papers/w33255

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Simone Vannuccini @svannuccini.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

What is the relationship between #robots & #innovation? Are #vision-language-models going to transform the #industry? You are still in time to register to my seminar taking place online&in-person TODAY (Mon 16/12 2-3PM Paris time): link below or in the poster! #AI #cotedazur

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Simone Vannuccini @svannuccini.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Sorry, but did I read right that Lisa Su of AMD and Jensen Huang and NVidia are cousins? What a family is that?! Besides: great profile of Su by @billyperrigo.bsky.social in TIME mag. It takes a woman to lead a serious business, move away peterpanish techbros, go to play at Mar-o-lago

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Lisa Su Is TIME's 2024 CEO of the Year

The CEO engineered a remarkable turnaround for AMD

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Simone Vannuccini @svannuccini.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

While seriously supporting SKorean citizens' resistance against martial law installation attempt, I suggest also a silly kind of signal by linking 'APT' with its hands-dancing Italian antecedents: 'vola' by L Cuccarini and 'Gioca Jouer' by C Checchetto: more hands moving and less hands on democracy!

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Claudio Cecchetto - Gioca Jouer (1981)

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Simone Vannuccini @svannuccini.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

The ultimate compass to map the emerging rear-mirror-looking patriarchy-shielding manosphere. Ht @taylorlorenz.bsky.social podcast! These are mostly repressed millennials but how soon the alpha-gen wannabe alpha males will relabel themselves alpha^2?

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The cultural power of the anti-woke tech bro

The aesthetic of Cybertrucks, energy drinks, and MMA, explained.

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Simone Vannuccini @svannuccini.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Final lecture today of my #AI & #societal #transformation course in #Nice: we discussed AI ethics & rebuttals of tescreal views, AI as an acceleration engine to harm #democracy, AI #policy & #geopolitics, AI& #sustainability (w/ ref to @sashamtl.bsky.social @strubell.bsky.social work). Sneakpeek!

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Simone Vannuccini @svannuccini.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Exploring an ad-driven business model is the likely path #OpenAI will follow to achieve profitability (besides government contracts): if you read #burnbook by @karaswisher.bsky.social it will sound familiar as a strategy -that's is precisely the evolution/playbook followed by early google

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Ads might be coming to ChatGPT — despite Sam Altman not being a fan | TechCrunch

OpenAI is toying with a move into ads, per the Financial Times. CFO Sarah Friar told the newspaper it's weighing an ads business model, with plans to be

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Simone Vannuccini @svannuccini.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

VOILA! seminar last reminder: register on the link below to attend @susglickman.bsky.social talk 'The #Politics of #Exponential #Growth: #AI, #Hardware and #Industrial #Policy' -from #semiconductors to AI it's time for an historically-informed, critical, sociotechnical view on current trends! >>

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Simone Vannuccini @svannuccini.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Did you already read @ainowinstitute.bsky.social report on #European #AI #Industrial #Policy? (W/ @ceciliarikap.bsky.social @cristinacaffarra.bsky.social &more) Here in Nice @leevisaari.bsky.social presented it to the UCôteD'Azur AI community in a cozy festive setting! Best present would be...

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