Geert-Jan van Bussel

(PDF) A Catalyst for Urgent Dialogue and Reform PDF | Book Review of C. Piller (2025). Doctored. Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer’s, Atria, One Signal Publishers, New York,... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...

Scientific fraud and research misconduct are not only the result of personal ambition but also of endemic and systemic causes: See my review of @charlespiller.bsky.social “Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer’s.”
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Many thanks to @gjvanbussel.bsky.social for “A Catalyst for Urgent Dialogue and Reform” – his astute, thorough, and fair-minded review of my book “Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer’s.” vbds.nl/2025/09/15/a...

I published a review of:
C. Piller (2025). Doctored. Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer’s, Atria, One Signal Publish-ers, New York, Amsterdam, London, 352 pp.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Originally published at:
vbds.nl/2025/09/15/a...
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Making AI Less 'Thirsty' | Communications of the ACM

Interesting paper in: "Making AI Less 'Thirsty. Uncovering and addressing the secret water footprint of AI models", by Pengfei Li, and colleagues, in Communications of the ACM.
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Confirmation of my: "Tthe ecological footprint of AI: vbds.nl/2024/07/30/v...
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Hungary’s oldest library is fighting to save 100,000 books from a beetle infestation | CNN Tens of thousands of centuries-old books are being pulled from the shelves of a medieval abbey in Hungary in an effort to save them from a beetle infestation that could wipe out centuries of history.

The 1,000-year-old Pannonhalma Archabbey, one of Hungary’s oldest centres of learning and a World Heritage site, is fighting to save 100,000 books from a beetle infestation. Tens of thousands of centuries-old books are being pulled from the shelves.
edition.cnn.com/2025/07/14/e...
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(PDF) AI as a Mirror PDF | Book Review of S. Vallor (2024). The AI Mirror. How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking. Oxford University Press, New York, 263... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...

I published a Book Review of:
S. Vallor (2024). The AI Mirror. How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking. Oxford University Press, New York, 263 p.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Originally published at:
vbds.nl/2025/07/02/a...
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(PDF) Ideological Platforms PDF | Book review of: M. Pepi (2025). Against Platforms: Surviving Digital Utopia, Melville House, Brooklyn-London, 224 p. The original version is... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...

I made small changes in the text.
I have published a book review of: M. Pepi (2025). Against Platforms: Surviving Digital Utopia, Melville House, Brooklyn-London, 224 p.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) Ideological Platforms PDF | Book review of: M. Pepi (2025). Against Platforms: Surviving Digital Utopia, Melville House, Brooklyn-London, 224 p. The original version is... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...

I have published a book review of: M. Pepi (2025). Against Platforms: Surviving Digital Utopia, Melville House, Brooklyn-London, 224 p.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Originally: vbds.nl/2025/05/23/i...
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Form frustration to exhilaration, for instance. It is a transformation or a passage, so the rush of that passage can be just the same as in the physical world. It is just anorther, different experience. Rosen denies that an experience is possible in the virtual world. But we live in a hybrid world.

Oh, I agree. I don't think only living in a virtual space is possible and something learned there needs to be practiced and relearned in the physical world. But contrary to Rosen, I do not believe it is impossible to experience something in virtual reality.

(PDF) The Decay of Culture? PDF | Book review of C. Rosen (2024). The Extinction of Experience. Being Human in a Disembodied World, W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 272 p. The... | Find, read and cite all the research you need o...

I made a mistake with my earlier post.
I have published a book review of: C. Rosen (2024). The Extinction of Experience. Being Human in a Disembodied World, W.W. Norton &
Company, New York, 272 p.
Originally: vbds.nl/2025/05/03/t...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) The Decay of Culture? PDF | Book review of C. Rosen (2024). The Extinction of Experience. Being Human in a Disembodied World, W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 272 p. The... | Find, read and cite all the research you need o...

I have published a book review of: N. Carr (2025). Superbloom. How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart, W. W. Norton & Company, 272 pages. Originally: vbds.nl/2025/05/03/t...
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(PDF) Tearing us Apart PDF | Book review of: N. Carr (2025). Superbloom. How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart, W. W. Norton & Company, 272 pages. Published on my... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...

I have published a book review of: N. Carr (2025). Superbloom. How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart, W. W. Norton & Company, 272 pages. Originally: vbds.nl/2025/04/03/t....
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) Book review: To Control History PDF | Book review of: J. Stanley (2024). Erasing History. How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future, Atria/One Signal Publishers, New York,... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...

I have published a book review of: J. Stanley (2024). Erasing History, Atria/One Signal Publishers, New York, an obligatory read and highly recommended, about the 'fascist' upheaval in the USA in context. Published on: www.researchgate.net/publication/.... Originally: vbds.nl/2025/03/20/b...

AI Search Has A Citation Problem We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News.

Klaudia Jaźwińska and Aisvarya Chandrasekar analysed 8 AI models. Collectively, they provided incorrect answers to more than 60% of queries. The level of inaccuracy varied, with Perplexity answering 37% incorrectly, while Grok 3 had an error rate, of 94%. 🧪 #AcademicSky
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(PDF) The Data's Afterlife PDF | Boek review of: C. Öhman (2024). The Afterlife of Data: What Happens to Your Information When You Die and Why You Should Care, University of... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...

I have published a book review of Carl Ohman's, The Afterlife of Data, a concise and highly recommended book about the problematic use of peronal data after our demise, when privacy doesn't exist.
Published on: www.researchgate.net/publication/.... Originally: vbds.nl/2024/12/31/t...
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(PDF) The Unaccountability Machine PDF | Boek review of: D. Davies (2024). The Unaccountability Machine. Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions — and How the World Lost Its Mind, Profile... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...

I have just published a book review of D. Davies (2024). The Unaccountability Machine. Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions — and How the World Lost Its Mind, Profile Books, 304 pp. Published on: www.researchgate.net/publication/... and on my own website: vbds.nl/2024/12/31/t...
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Geert-Jan Van Bussel on LinkedIn: Many Impressive AI Demos Were Fakes Dr. Jeffrey Funk states the change in the 'narrative' for #AI stocks in the last two months as one of the reasons for the losses on the stock markets…

There is no AI Revolution.
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www.linkedin.com/posts/gvanbu...

Microsoft's Relationship With OpenAI Is Not Looking Good The major investor in OpenAI has been looking to cut ties as the two companies start looking more like competitors.

Microsoft is looking to split with OpenAI. It is developing its own models, and OpenAI has been unwilling to share details, as was agreed. Copilot, based on ChatGPT, has thus far received poor reception due to high cost and limited results.
See: gizmodo.com/microsofts-r...
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Alex Reisner in The Atlantic states that AI models are trained on questions of the benchmarks they are tested on, which taints the legitimacy of scores. He refers to studies and experiments published over the last two years showing they are cheating.
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OpenAI Admits That Its New Model Still Hallucinates More Than a Third of the Time If a partner made stuff up a third of the time, it would be a problem — but apparently, it's perfectly fine for OpenAI's new model.

Telling the truth is difficult for AI-models.
A paper from OpenAI demonstrates hallucinating between 53% and 81% when answering. See: arxiv.org/pdf/2411.04368
For a critical review of this article, see: futurism.com/openai-admit...
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(PDF) The Accessibility Conundrum. The Problematic Phenomenon of Information Access and Accessibility PDF | The central thesis of this book is that access to information represents a vital aspect of contemporary society, encompassing participation,... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...

If you want to know what de three paradoxes of information access and accessibility are and gain an understanding why digital preservation is of the utmost importance, see pp. 7-24 of mt The Accessibility Conundrum. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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I have just published a book review of Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation. I recommend reading the book, but with a critical eye.
See (extended): vbds.nl/2025/03/03/o...
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/posts/gvanbu...
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"Who is an AI Ethicist? An empirical study of expertise, skills, and profiles to build a competency framework"
New paper published in AI and Ethics, by @floridi.bsky.social and others.
Free version: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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(PDF) The Accessibility Conundrum. The Problematic Phenomenon of Information Access and Accessibility PDF | The central thesis of this book is that access to information represents a vital aspect of contemporary society, encompassing participation,... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...

If you want to gain and use an elaborate checklist for evaluating your institution's information access and accessibility, based on its five requirements, see pp. 180-186 of my: The Accessibility Conundrum.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Human use of fire has produced an era of uncontrolled burning: Welcome to the Pyrocene Humans have become a geologic force by cooking the planet – using fire on a scale that is altering land, water, air and ecosystems.

Stephen Pyne (theconversation.com/profiles/ste...):
Humanity’s fire practices are so vast that it is creating the fire equivalent of an ice age.
Fires in living landscapes and fires in lithic landscapes are crossing, often with lethal consequences
theconversation.com/human-use-of...
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The consideration of #climate effects in relation to energy sources is not a recent phenomenon, as evidenced by the accompanying journal article (discovered by @beeasmarine.bsky.social). Instead of a few centuries, we are seeing rising temperatures within a century. 🧪 #AcademicSky

AI's Climate Impact Goes beyond Its Emissions To understand how AI is contributing to climate change, look at the way it’s being used

To understand how AI is contributing to climate change, look at the way it’s being used. The (negative as well as positive) impact of AI is going to be from the applications they’re built for, not necessarily the cost of training.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/ais-...

(PDF) An Accountability Puzzle. Organizations, Organizational Governance and Accountability PDF | The external expectations of organizational accountability force organizational leaders to find solutions and answers in organizational (and... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...

If you are interested in #organizationalgovernance and #accountability, maybe my 2021 #book is interesting for you:
An Accountability Puzzle. Organizations, Organizational Governance and Accountability.
It is available free of charge.
Download: www.researchgate.net/publication/... 🧪
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