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AI regulation and the right to meaningful explanation. Pt 1. Why (not)?

AI regulation and the right to meaningful explanation. Pt 1. Why (not)?

Posted on 11 November 2024 by

Ask anyone except a gun rights activist, and they will agree that the rise of new technologies requires the implementation of new regulations. Not too long ago, a law against […]

AI voices should sound weird

AI voices should sound weird

Posted on 19 August 2024 by

There has been a lot of discussion recently – both among academics and in the popular press –  about what kinds of limits should be placed on content generated by […]

Truth, fiction and LLMs

Truth, fiction and LLMs

Posted on 10 June 2024 by

The trope of the working novelist isolated for months at a time, hunched over a desk with yellow stained and repetitively strained fingers clacking away on a keyboard is no […]

Rethinking Manipulation: The Indifference View of Manipulation

Rethinking Manipulation: The Indifference View of Manipulation

Posted on 15 April 2024 by

In the series' Unpacking Manipulation in the Digital Age,' the previous five posts covered the rise of problematic forms of digital influence (Posts 1, 2, and 3), the need to […]

Unravelling the Complexity of Manipulation Theories

Unravelling the Complexity of Manipulation Theories

Posted on 15 April 2024 by

In the previous four posts of this series on 'Unpacking Manipulation in the Digital Age'(Post 1; Post 2; Post 3; Post 4), I argued that more attention to different types […]

Types of Social Influence and Manipulation Without Intention

Types of Social Influence and Manipulation Without Intention

Posted on 1 April 2024 by

In the previous two posts of this series on online manipulation, I outlined three developments that warrant closer attention to digital influence (here), and argued that a peculiar result is […]

The Rise of Digital Manipulation

The Rise of Digital Manipulation

Posted on 30 March 2024 by

In the previous post of this series on 'Unpacking Manipulation in the Digital Age,' I argued that problematic forms of influence can be unintentional but not accidental and that the […]

The Dark Side of Digital Influence

The Dark Side of Digital Influence

Posted on 18 March 2024 by

In the previous post, I outlined three reasons for paying closer attention to social influence in the digital landscape: the proliferation of social influence, the informational empowerment of social influence, […]

Unpacking Manipulation for the Digital Age

Unpacking Manipulation for the Digital Age

Posted on 18 March 2024 by

Public debate is shaped partly by human social influence, and we routinely distinguish different types of social influence, such as persuasion, coercion, and manipulation. While persuasion and coercion are reasonably […]

Leave it to the Machines? Re-evaluating the Kasparov reply

Leave it to the Machines? Re-evaluating the Kasparov reply

Posted on 6 March 2023 by

In 1997, Garry Kasparov became the first world chess champion to lose a match to a computer, IBM’s Deep Blue. Kasparov initially thought the IBM team cheated after the computer […]