Elisabeth Steindl

‘Unbelievably dangerous’: experts sound alarm after ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases

‘Unbelievably dangerous’: experts sound alarm after ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Wiener Vorlesung: China oder USA - wer hat die technologische Vorherrschaft? am 11.2.2026 YouTube video by Wienbibliothek im Rathaus

Helga Nowotny: Während die USA mit ihrer Obsession für Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) beschäftigt ist, trachtet China danach, KI zu entwickeln, um das menschliche Potenzial zu heben, nicht es zu ersetzen. [0:49'] #AIStrategy @iwm.at @wien.gv.at
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What happens when our 🧠 minds become data?
In this blog, I introduce the key ideas behind 📖 my book A DATAFIED MIND—examining AI, neurotechnology, emotion analytics, and the legal frameworks (GDPR, AI Act) shaping society in the digital age.
#DigitalLaw #Neurotechnology #AI #DataLaw #MindTech4Good

Smartphone könnte bei Vorhersage helfen Smartphones und Wearables könnten die Diagnostik und Vorhersage von Schizophrenie-Spektrum-Störungen revolutionieren. Das zeigt eine Arbeit von Forschenden am Institut für Systemische Neurowissenschaf...

„Digitale Technologien ermöglichen uns hingegen, einen besseren kontinuierlichen Verlauf des Gesundheitszustandes zu sehen. Unsere Studie zeigt deutlich, dass wir dr Smartphones und Wearables objektive Marker für kognitive Leistung und Verhaltensmuster erhalten können" tirol.orf.at/stories/3340...

Finally wrote a short blog entry for Cambridge University Press on my new book #ADatafiedMind 🧠: When Minds Are Turned Into Data: Governing Emotion Technology and Neurotechnology under EU Law cambridgeblog.org/2026/02/when... Have a look! 😎 @cambup-law.cambridge.org @universitypress.cambridge.org

Americans are obsessed with paying to get smarter, but they're not always getting results Americans want to upgrade their brains — one scoop, zap, or gaming session at a time. But what does the science have to say about any of this?

"The neuroscience professor says when students come to him struggling with focus or are unable to complete assignments, he never suggests brain training. 'I would recommend sleep,' he said". 🙃 www.businessinsider.com/americas-obs...

AI chatbots miss urgent issues in queries about women's health AI models such as ChatGPT and Gemini fail to give adequate advice for 60 per cent of queries relating to women’s health in a test created by medical professionals

"AI models such as ChatGPT and Gemini fail to give adequate advice for 60 per cent of queries relating to women’s health in a test created by medical professionals" www.newscientist.com/article/2510...

‘Dangerous and alarming’: Google removes some of its AI summaries after users’ health put at risk Guardian investigation finds AI Overviews provided inaccurate and false information when queried over blood tests

Health experts: Your synthetic text "AI" overviews are misleading, for example see this about liver function tests.
Google: Okay, we'll block "AI" overviews on that query.

The product is fundamentally flawed and cannot be "fixed" by patching query by query.

A short 🧵>>

„Das Selber-Schreiben wird in den Hintergrund treten“ belmonte testet aktuelle KI und präsentiert maschinelle Texte. Sein neues Buch heißt: „Was bleibt von uns, wenn das Wasser kommt. Einsatz generativer KI in erzählender Literatur“. Katharina Borchardt ...

„Das Selber-Schreiben wird in den Hintergrund treten“ #neuroliteratur #neurotech www.swr.de/kultur/liter...

For the record: well-crafted regulation 😉

Podcast: Can we resist the AI empire, Karen Hao? In this episode of Future Discontinuous, we take a deep dive into the world of artificial intelligence and OpenAI with award-winning journalist and author Karen Hao.

Excellent interview. Intriguing argument: Regulation helped drive China’s advance in AI. Legal scholars have long made this point, yet the simplistic claim ‘regulation kills innovation’ keeps dominating the debate @karenhao.bsky.social @iwm.at @evakonzett.bsky.social www.falter.at/podcasts/fut...

Zwischen Text und Tempo: Droht Österreichs Universitäten eine "Lesekrise"? Studierende lesen immer weniger und immer schlechter, lautet der Vorwurf von manchen Kulturskeptikern. Stimmt das? Muss man sich Sorgen um Österreichs Bildungselite machen?

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NYU Professor Uses AI Oral Exams to Outsmart AI-Written Assignments When student work looked like McKinsey memos, an NYU business school professor used AI oral exams to test real learning.

"The assignments looked brilliant. The understanding didn't. That's when an NYU business school professor decided to fight AI-assisted coursework with AI-powered oral exams." #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name.

"These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."

Der #BÖP Berufsverband Österreichischer Psycholog:innen hat mich eingeladen, über mein neues Buch "A Datafied Mind" zu sprechen. Ich freue mich auf einen spannenden Austausch! #MindTech4Good boep.or.at/veranstaltun...

@cambup-law.cambridge.org @universitypress.cambridge.org

A Datafied Mind Cambridge Core - Law and technology, science, communication - A Datafied Mind

💡Hot off the press, now available as eBook, Paperback, and Hardback: "A Datafied Mind: Untangling EU Regulation of Emotion Technology and Neurotechnology" (Cambridge University Press 2025). #MindTech4Good, at the intersection between #ITlaw, #innovation and #ethics. www.cambridge.org/core/books/d...

WU (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien)

Very happy to share the Call for Papers for the 2nd Legal Tech Summit - submit your research on "genAI in legal practice" until Nov 15 and be part of next year's Summit on 26 and 27 March 2026 @wuvienna.bsky.social! 🚀 #LegalTech #CfP www.wu.ac.at/ltc/events/e...

noyb win: Microsoft 365 Education tracks school children Favorable decision by the Austrian DSB: Microsoft Education 365 may not track school kids and Microsoft is ordered to provide full access to kids' data.

🎉 Big #WIN for student privacy! 🔒 Austria’s DPA has issued a decision finding that #Microsoft 365 Education illegally tracks pupils and uses student data for Microsoft's own purposes.

📰 Read the full blog post, including a comment by Max #Schrems 👉 noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-...

Honored to share insights from my book A Datafied Mind (CUP 2025) at #eMHIC25 the 10th Digital Mental Health Global Congress! Exploring how #law, #innovation & #ethics can shape responsible #neurotech and #emotiontech ➡️https://cambridge.org/core/books/datafied-mind/D6188D95F160FCE0042882303811F90E

Fünf Datenspürhunde treten ihren Dienst an Bei der Polizei haben fünf speziell ausgebildete Datenspürhunde ihren Dienst angetreten. Bis Ende des Jahres sollen in ganz Österreich elf solcher Diensthunde im Einsatz sein. Die Tiere können digital...

🕵🏻https://wien.orf.at/stories/3323344/

Spannend wäre dieselbe Untersuchung an juristischen Fakultäten

#52 2025 Über den Einsatz von KI an Österreichs Schulen - mit Elke Höfler | Ganz offen gesagt Was kann Künstliche Intelligenz an unseren Schulen leisten und wie viel davon ist überhaupt gut? Darüber spricht Clemens Schreiber mit Elke Höfler. Sie hat ein österreichweites KI-Pilotprojekt an Schu...

Neue Folge! Was kann KI an Schulen leisten & wie viel davon ist überhaupt gut? Darüber spricht Clemens Schreiber mit Elke Höfler. Sie hat ein österreichweites KI-Pilotprojekt an Schulen wissenschaftlich begleitet & erklärt, was Lehrpersonen über die KI denken & wie sie diese im Unterricht einsetzen.

In our field, we’ve been writing about this for well over a decade. It’s in Eli Pariser’s ‘filter bubbles’, in Cass Sunstein’s Republic 2.0, even in my PhD thesis and first book, Internet Privacy Rights.

Algorithms and AI exacerbate the problem, but it’s there without them.

ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds A new study has found that large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT consistently advise women to ask for lower salaries than men.

#AI is built on historical data. It inevitably reflects, prolongs, and—at its worst—amplifies #bias.
➡️ No, "clear ethical standards" for AI development and deployment alone won’t erase systemic discrimination already embedded in real-world practices.
thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...

Nimmt die KI Übersetzern den Job weg? Noch setzen die meisten Literaturverlage auf professionelle Übersetzer. Die Unsicherheit in der Branche ist aber groß

Post-Editing von KI-übersetzten Texten ist anstrengend und ermüdend, Literaturübersetzerinnen wollen in ihrer Arbeit aber gerade sprachlich kreativ. "Der Spaß daran, die Sprache zu biegen und zu benutzen, geht so verloren." AI writing poems, we doing laundry ... www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

AI tools used by English councils downplay women’s health issues, study finds Exclusive: LSE research finds risk of gender bias in care decisions made based on AI summaries of case notes

LSE study reveals that AI tools to generate or summarise case studies reinforce gender #bias: Women’s health issues are downplayed or left out entirely, male cases are presented using serious, urgent language. This can lead to discrimination in care decisions.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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🧠 Emotion tech & neurotech are no longer sci-fi.
They’re in our workplaces, politics, commercial ads & mental health apps. But… is EU law ready?
My new book, A Datafied Mind @cambup-law.cambridge.org‬, tackles exactly that. Discount info in first reply below.
#Neurotech #AIethics #emotionAI

Expect the U.K. to try to follow.