Sophie Weerts

YouTube video by lucio sampaio Miriam Makeba "Pata Pata" 1967 (Audio Remastered)

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

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.

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...

Heartbreaking

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…

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.

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📣 Are you a young researcher working on technology & interested in its social, democratic, and environmental impacts and their regulation?
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📣 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/...

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…

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!

It's here.
Pit in stomach feeling.
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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

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....

Parfaite fin de semaine!

Very important to have such an empirical study!

now I wonder if this will work or if civil servants will develop strategies to get around it… 🙄

If you are interested in how the US and the EU institutions regulated the use of generative AI in their organisations, look below 😉 👇🏻 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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...

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

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.
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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:
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Brussels airport is apparently a good place to reaffirm European values

📣 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 !
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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

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...

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).

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...

Europe Advances Its AI Act | TechPolicy.Press A conversation with EURACTIV technology editor Luca Bertuzzi.

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.

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.

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...

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

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...

The paradox of global politics…remember the location of UN climate change conference, Nov 2023