Sandra Wachter

@hiigberlin.bsky.social @socsci.ox.ac.uk @oii.ox.ac.uk @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social @algorithmwatch.org

Synthetic data is best used as a supporting tool rather than a replacement for real data. The expectation that synthetic data can fill every blind spot or fix every inadequacy of real data is fantastical. my interview ACM Comms & Samuel Greengard cacm.acm.org/news/ai-goes...

Matthew McConaughey trademarks iconic phrase to stop AI misuse The Oscar-winning actor has trademarked several phrases, including "Alright, alright, alright" from the cult classic film, Dazed and Confused.

"It is simple for companies to take your work and train a model to do your job. It is comparatively difficult for you to protect your work in the first place"

My interview with the BBC and Kerena Cobbina on the need for laws to protect worker rights.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Great to see @swachter.bsky.social @oii.ox.ac.uk evidence on risks of generative AI being cited in the Treasury Committee report on Artificial Intelligence in financial services. Download the full report: committees.parliament.uk/publications...

Eine Frau steht in einem Gang und sieht in die Kamera.

🤖 KI ist eine Blackbox – aber @swachter.bsky.social hter.bsky.social bringt Licht ins Dunkel.

Im Podcast „Die Boss“ erklärt die Humboldt-Professorin, warum der Begriff „Künstliche Intelligenz“ irreführend ist und wo sie Chancen und Risiken aktueller Modelle sieht.

🎧 plus.rtl.de/podcast/die-...

@hiigberlin.bsky.social @oii.ox.ac.uk @socsci.ox.ac.uk @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social

KI-Expertin: Sandra Wachter ist Professorin am Oxford Internet Institute und Humboldt-Professorin am Hasso-Plattner-Institut und forscht zu Datenethik, Regulierung und den gesellschaftlichen Auswirkungen von gener...

My interview on AI regulation, how regulation DOES NOT stifle innovation, who should be liable if these systems fail, if we should use GenAI in schools and unis, how to tackle AI bias, opacity, hallucinations, the carbon footprint and the myth of AGI tinyurl.com/uea5x3vm

“These are actions of people who do not fear consequences or backlash anymore. The market has failed to regulate itself. This is the tech we get when hard regulation does not exist” @swachter.bsky.social

www.newsweek.com/sexualized-d...

"The market has failed to regulate itself. This is the tech we get when hard regulation does not exist" said @swachter.bsky.social @oii.ox.ac.uk@socsci.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk on the need for tighter regulation in light of recent sexualised Grok images. Read the full article: bit.ly/4qOgjQc

My interview @newsweek.com & Marni Rose McFall

“Its devastating that tech firms feel comfortable to release tech that allows the non-consensual undressing of women & children. These are actions of people who do not fear consequences anymore. This is the tech we get when hard regulation does not exist” tinyurl.com/yc72kx66

thank you!

Vielleicht eh mal ein paar Non-Tech-Bro Follow-Empfehlungen von mir zum Thema KI:

• @emilymbender.bsky.social
• @abeba.bsky.social
• @timnitgebru.bsky.social
• @olivia.science
• @alexhanna.bsky.social
• @mmitchell.bsky.social
• @irisvanrooij.bsky.social
• @swachter.bsky.social

Digitalwende: Sandra Wachter über KI, Wahrheit und Verantwortung | SZ Dossier IT-Planungsrat plant Sonderklausur zu zentralen Fragen, Desinformation: Regierung setzt auf zehn Mitarbeitende, Digitale Zahlung: SPD-Finanzpolitiker erhöhen Tempo, Experten-Netzwerk warnt vor Machtve...

Incredibly humbled to have this profile written about me @szde.bsky.social @larryg.bsky.social Lovely to chat about digital sovereignty in Europe, geopolitics & the future of regulation. We must not cave to industry lobbing & sacrifice human rights on the altar of innovation tinyurl.com/mr86dp2e

My interview @newsweek.com with Marni Rose McFall

@oii.ox.ac.uk @socsci.ox.ac.uk @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social

Two versions of same photo spark online alarm: 'It is so over' Google’s new Nano Banana Pro is making waves online, and people are declaring the end of traditional photography.

I find it dystopian to claim the era of traditional photography is “over.”It basically says“why capture real genuine human moments if you could just generate them on your computer? I am not sure why we should celebrate the death of art & artists & see this as a sign of progress tinyurl.com/2s4e6ede

Thanks @newsweek.com Hugh Cameron 4 ft my work w/
@bmittelstadt.bsky.social & @cruss.bsky.social
on GenAI, hallucinations & “careless speech” www.newsweek.com/google-boss-...

Thanks @newsweek.com Hugh Cameron 4 ft my work w/
@bmittelstadt.bsky.social & @cruss.bsky.social
on GenAI, hallucinations & “careless speech” www.newsweek.com/google-boss-...

GenAI is extremely prone to hallucinate. If people use LLMs to ask questions they don’t know the answer to, how would they be able to spot a mistake? And now think what can happen if we implement these systems in areas where truth and detail matter e.g. investment decisions, stock market or medicine

Keynote: The Power of AI: From Tech Ideologies to New Authoritarianisms. 20.11.2025, 18:300-20:00 h, Weizenbaum Institute, Hardenbergstraße 32, 10623 Berlin

⚠️ AI is seen by many as a promise of salvation for humanity. But what if this technology of the future hides authoritarian fantasies of power behind its shiny facade? Join this keynote by Rainer Mühlhoff (Uni Osnabrück) 👉 Register now: buff.ly/DNNizzn

Trump Administration Providing Weapons Grade Plutonium to Sam Altman The White House is providing plutonium to Sam Altman's Oklo, one of four US companies chosen to test experimental reactor designs.

HT @cruss.bsky.social

futurism.com/science-ener...

Full papers here w @bmittelstadt.bsky.social @cruss.bsky.social @oii.ox.ac.uk @socsci.ox.ac.uk

Do large language models have a legal duty to tell the truth? lnkd.in/ejqW4nnB

To protect science, we must use LLMs as zero-shot translators lnkd.in/etZRbSh5

The human line: safeguarding rights and democracy in the AI era Strasbourg 20/10/2025

Super excited to see my work on GenAI & subtle hallucinations or what we coin “careless speech” cited in @coe.int report. We need to think about the cumulative, long-term risks of “careless speech” to science, education, media & shared social truth in democratic societies.

tinyurl.com/44pjvrjp

So that's teaching wrapped up for another year, next class start of March. Marking then writing then Kenya then writing... Will the bubble burst while I am drafting?

Pregnant women describe miscarrying and bleeding out while in ICE custody, advocates say The ACLU and other groups are pressing for ICE to identify and release all pregnant women in custody and to stop detaining anyone known to be pregnant, postpartum or nursing.

“Medical staff did not give her any food, water, or pain medication for several hours. Much later that evening, after a significant loss of blood, Lucia was transported to an emergency room approximately an hour away, with her arms and legs shackled.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn’t Released It. Agency scientists found that PFNA could cause developmental, liver and reproductive harms. Their final report was ready in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica, but the ...

EPA scientists linked PFNA with developmental, liver and reproductive harms.

Their final report was ready in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica, but it has yet to be released by the Trump administration.

By @fastlerner.bsky.social

Scientists Increasingly Using AI to Help Write Papers—for Better or Worse

Super excited to see my work on the dangers of “careless speech”, subtle hallucinations & GenAI for science, academia & education or any areas where truth & detail matter w/ @bmittelstadt.bsky.social @cruss.bsky.social ft @elsevierconnect.bsky.social Mitch Leslie
tinyurl.com/4ms2mkub

@oii.ox.ac.uk @socsci.ox.ac.uk @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social

Do large language models have a legal duty to tell the truth? | Royal Society Open Science Careless speech is a new type of harm created by large language models (LLM) that poses cumulative, long-term risks to science, education and shared social truth in democratic societies. LLMs produce ...

Do large language models have a legal duty to tell the truth? royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
To protect science, we must use LLMs as zero-shot translators www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Scientists Increasingly Using AI to Help Write Papers—for Better or Worse

Super excited to see my work on the dangers of “careless speech”, subtle hallucinations & GenAI for science, academia & education or any areas where truth & detail matter w/ @bmittelstadt.bsky.social @cruss.bsky.social ft @elsevierconnect.bsky.social Mitch Leslie
tinyurl.com/4ms2mkub