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Mark Vanderbeeken @vanderbeeken.bsky.social · 46m

Belgian hardware store chain Brico and the Belgian branch of supermarket chain @carrefour.bsky.social opt for AI music in their stores. Artists in Belgium risk losing a quarter of their income.

vrtnws @vrtnws.be · 6h

Brico en Carrefour kiezen voor AI-muziek in hun winkels: "Artiesten in België dreigen kwart inkomsten te verliezen" vrtnws.be/p.vLEa9J9wj?t=176... @vrtnws.be

Brico en Carrefour kiezen voor AI-muziek in hun winkels: "Artiesten in België dreigen kwart inkomsten te verliezen"

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Foreign Affairs @foreignaffairs.com.web.brid.gy · 2d

The Coming AI Backlash

How the anger economy will supercharge populism.

www.foreignaffairs.com

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Mark Vanderbeeken @vanderbeeken.bsky.social · 2d

"Technologies are architectures that organize our bodies in space and time, and give form to what I call the digital body."
Hands. Voice. Ear. Eye. Foot. Body. Mind.
by @vxchang.bsky.social

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/797013...
portal.independentmediainstitute.org/2025/10/10/h...

The Body Digital by Vanessa Chang: 9781685891978 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

A dazzling tour of the history of technology and its complex relationship to the human body What is the relationship between our bodies and our senses and technology? In today's world of blinding tec...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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Pushkin Press @pushkinpress.com · 18d

@financialtimes.com How tech lords and populists changed the rules of power, according to Giuliano da Empoli, author of The Wizard of the Kremlin and The Hour of the Predator www.ft.com/content/85ee...

How tech lords and populists changed the rules of power

Digital moguls and strongman leaders are more than disrupters of the old liberal order. Together they seek to sweep it away, writes Giuliano da Empoli

www.ft.com

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Carissa Véliz @carissaveliz.bsky.social · 3d

Very nice to see my TEDx Porto talk is out! How #privacy can save your life. For more on privacy, get the #book - Privacy Is Power. #AIEthics

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSPR...

How privacy can save your life | Carissa Véliz | TEDxPorto

YouTube video by TEDx Talks

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 8d

New data shows the ways millions of people have integrated AI into their everyday lives. Also, it suggests that for now at least, AI is an individual productivity tool — both at work and in our personal lives — rather than the broader workplace disrupter many in Big Tech predicted. on.ft.com/47cKBVN

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Mark Vanderbeeken @vanderbeeken.bsky.social · 8d

"The [AI-driven] demand for more data and more data-crunching capabilities will require about $3 trillion in capital just by 2028, in the estimation of Morgan Stanley. That would exceed the capacity of the global credit and derivative securities markets."

INET - Institute for New Economic Thinking @ineteconomics.bsky.social · 9d

What if AI is a bubble? Servaas Storm’s latest working paper discusses three sobering research studies showing that novel ever-larger GenAI models do not become better, but worse, and do not reason, but rather parrot reasoning-like text.
www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

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Mark Vanderbeeken @vanderbeeken.bsky.social · 8d

How are people integrating AI tools into their daily lives? As a practical digital assistant according to research by the FT's data and visual storytelling team. Despite the uptake in personal use (now 70% of overall use), a revolution has yet to be seen at an organisational level.

FT Visual & Data Journalism @data.ft.com · 8d

How AI became our personal assistant on.ft.com/46WenNc

How AI became our personal assistant

New data shows the ways millions have integrated the technology into their everyday lives

on.ft.com

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Mark Vanderbeeken @vanderbeeken.bsky.social · 8d

They are first casualties as well. YouTube is full of AI slop.

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Mark Vanderbeeken @vanderbeeken.bsky.social · 8d

And the next ones?

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Mark Vanderbeeken @vanderbeeken.bsky.social · 9d

And a problem for Europe:

"The € itself fell by over half a cent against the $, in a rare instance of domestic political upheaval having effects beyond France's borders."
(Le Monde)

“France is too big to fail, so this endless political instability puts the entire eurozone at risk.”
(Politico)

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Mark Vanderbeeken @vanderbeeken.bsky.social · 10d

The Pew survey this is based on: "About one-in-ten U.S. adults say they get news often (2%) or sometimes (7%) from AI chatbots like ChatGPT or Gemini. An additional 16% do so rarely."
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Relatively few Americans are getting news from AI chatbots like ChatGPT

About one-in-ten U.S. adults say they get news often (2%) or sometimes (7%) from AI chatbots.

www.pewresearch.org

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Noema Magazine @noemamag.com · 12d

“Whoever controls AI infrastructure—compute, models, data, & cloud—will shape the economic & political order of the 21st century. The U.S. & China understand this & are mobilizing every instrument of statecraft to secure supremacy. Europe must understand it too.”

— @francescabria.bsky.social

#ai

Reclaiming Europe’s Digital Sovereignty | NOEMA

Europe can accept permanent technological dependency, or it can build democratic digital systems rooted in climate commitments, labor protections and social diversity.

www.noemamag.com

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Mark Vanderbeeken @vanderbeeken.bsky.social · 11d

Thanks @jamiecummins.bsky.social and @cathleenogrady.bsky.social

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Dutch News @dutchnewsnl.bsky.social · 16d

Dutch mental health council warns of ‘hypernervous society’ www.dutchnews.nl?p=257859

Dutch mental health council warns of ‘hypernervous society’

www.dutchnews.nl

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Helen Margetts @helenmargetts.bsky.social · 16d

AI needs social science. Cosmina Dorobantu and I explain why in a new blog post @lsedatascience.bsky.social @oii.ox.ac.uk blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

Why AI needs social science | British Politics and Policy at LSE

AI is about humans, that's why it needs to be shaped not just by computer science, but by social science.

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 11d

People are running stats on LLM-generated participants and think they’re being social scientists when in fact they’re technically just playing a very strange video game. This is like saying you’re doing math research because you’re playing sudoku.

www.science.org/content/arti...

AI-generated ‘participants’ can lead social science experiments astray, study finds

Data produced by “silicon samples” depends on researchers’ exact choice of models, prompts, and settings

www.science.org

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Mark Vanderbeeken @vanderbeeken.bsky.social · 12d

"She has attracted both resentment within the EU institutions for her controlling style and outside of the institutions for a perceived failure to show the same resolve when it comes to dealing with the outside world."

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CNET: Product reviews, advice, how-tos and the latest news @cnet.com.web.brid.gy · 13d

I Used an AI Chatbot Built to Disagree With Me. It Showed Me How Sycophantic ChatGPT Is

Disagree Bot was a refreshing break from other AI chatbots.

www.cnet.com

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Carissa Véliz @carissaveliz.bsky.social · 16d

AI is stealing traffic to most content sites. It's interesting how our default is still to think that this technology is a positive. But which side of the argument should bear the burden of proof? #AIEthics

www.economist.com/business/202...

AI is killing the web. Can anything save it?

The rise of ChatGPT and its rivals is undermining the economic bargain of the internet

www.economist.com

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Mark Vanderbeeken @vanderbeeken.bsky.social · 16d

The study:
www.nber.org/papers/w34255

How People Use ChatGPT

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

www.nber.org

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Alexandre Alaphilippe @aa.disinfo.eu · 16d

Interesting takeaways from OpenAI researchers:
- Professional use of ChatGPT has dropped to only half of overall usage.
- The models are increasingly being used to research external information or to obtain practical advice in areas such as health, sports, and education.

Quelles utilisations fait-on de ChatGPT ?

Selon une étude publiée par des chercheurs d’OpenAI, les 750 millions d’utilisateurs hebdomadaires de ChatGPT se servent de moins en moins du chatbot dans le cadre de leur travail, mais pour répondre ...

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Mark Vanderbeeken @vanderbeeken.bsky.social · 19d

AI chatbots (Chatgpt, Gemini, Claude, Copilot) can denounce us to the authorities [in part because of the EU's Digital Services Act and the AI Act]. Why this is extremely serious.

by Agostino Ghiglia of the Italian Privacy Authority

www.agendadigitale.eu/sicurezza/pr...