Stefan Daume

New paper together with @PetterBjerser & @vgalaz in ‘Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability’: “Mapping the automation of Twitter communications on climate change, sustainability, and environmental crises — a review of current research” doi.org/10.1016/j.cosu…

OMG it’s actually happening…

It’s been 9 years since we brought together a group of philosophers, hackers, artists, and others to develop what we called “the Biosphere Code manifesto”. Recovered from the depths of my email: The Biosphere Code v1.0 October 4th, 2015, Stockholm darkmachines.earth/blog/the-biosp…

A crisis of one’s own: The politics of trauma in Europe’s election year: ecfr.eu/publication/a-… via @ecfr

Specifically, we suggest to consider 1) complex online narratives across multiple media, 2) improve the comparability between studies, and 3) use surveys and interviews to determine individual and behavioral impacts of social media content and automation. /end

We reflect on these findings in light of recent developments in the social media landscape and call on researchers to use these as an opportunity to reorient social media research on this subject.

New paper together with @PetterBjerser & @vgalaz in ‘Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability’: “Mapping the automation of Twitter communications on climate change, sustainability, and environmental crises — a review of current research” doi.org/10.1016/j.cosu…

New grant! Delighted to be able to work more closely with our colleagues at the Urban Systems Lab (New School, NYC) and and especially @timonmcphearson in a project that applies AI-models to analyze social vulnerabilities and climate risks in cities. beijer.kva.se/news-item/gran…

My research on the disinformation campaign(s) targeting the Hawaii fires —which was amplified by Russia and China — is featured in this new piece by @HawaiiNewsNow. The takeaway: Crises are a target for disinfo and social media is an attack surface. hawaiinewsnow.com/2023/09/13/mau…

”The probability that malicious foreign actors will seek to meddle in U.S. democratic practice is close to 100 percent.” —foreignaffairs.com/united-states/…

”I think it sets a terrible example for future scientists,” said Andersen. “If I was a future scientist and looking at that, [I’d be] saying like, maybe I'm not going to go into infectious disease research.”

🌞 Need new inspiration? Look no further! We're heading into Swedish summer, and this channel will be a bit quieter for a few weeks. If you miss us too much, here are a few tips about good reads and podcasts to find inspiration for the upcoming weeks: buff.ly/3NwHtJk

OpenAI and Microsoft are being sued in California for $3 billion over alleged #privacy violations. Here's a short thread on why this lawsuit is important and worth following 🧵👇 #AIEthics

AI model GPT-3 (dis)informs us better than humans | Science Advances science.org/doi/full/10.11…

How often do people get incorrect legal, financial or medical advise from chatbots? Defamatory content? Toxic or biased outputs? How often do bad actors use gen AI to create disinfo or CSAM? We don't know. The risks debate is happening in a data vacuum. knightcolumbia.org/blog/generativ…

How do social bots contribute to online conversations on climate change? Social bots are involved in spreading discourses both in support and opposition of climate change action, but ultimately with unknown consequences, a recent study finds. Learn more: buff.ly/3NjEmV0

This ties in with our work on climate misinformation and AI at @sthlmresilience and the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics (@ScienceAcad_swe) stockholmresilience.org/news--events/c…

Happy to share that we have a new paper in 'Social Media + Society' together with @vgalaz @PetterBjerser: "Automated Framing of Climate Change? The Role of Social Bots in the Twitter Climate Change Discourse During the 2019/2020 Australia Bushfires" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…