Virginia Dignum

Scientists call on the President of the European Commission to retract AI hype statement Experts in AI call on the President of the European Commission to retract unscientific AI hype statement she made in the budget speech.

Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement.

@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed

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THE AI PARADOX | Kirkus Reviews In this optimistic take, the seductive skills of AI systems are pitted against the complexity of human intelligence.

The AI Paradox by @vdignum.bsky.social is “a nuanced, hopeful vision of a future with human intelligence amplified, not overwhelmed, by machine intelligence.” Read the full Kirkus review:

sharing our new article on the role of regulation for #AI therapist chatbots.

with @jasonetucker.bsky.social and @petterericson.bsky.social

AI Policy Lab @Umeå University
#ResponsibleAI #AIgovernance

I was privileged to attend #MLIndaba2025 #MLI2025 #Urunana
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Microsoft boss troubled by rise in reports of 'AI psychosis' | Virginia Dignum | 13 comments I agree with Mustafa Suleyman on this, there is every reason to be concerned about the growing psychological dependency on AI. But framing the problem as ‘seemingly conscious AI causing psychosis’ i...

My comments on Mustafa Suleyman ill-called 'seemingly conscious AI' 🤦‍♀️
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My comments on #Sweden prime minister use of #AI chatbots made it to The Guardian 😀 | Virginia Dignum | 16 comments My comments on #Sweden prime minister use of #AI chatbots made it to The Guardian 😀 https://lnkd.in/eXJPXW9t Here, in Swedish, the original article https://lnkd.in/eQ6GSRrS #ResponsibleAI #AIgover...

@jswanljung.bsky.social ha ha first thing I see on linkedin www.linkedin.com/posts/vdignu... cc @vdignum.bsky.social

Trump’s new AI agenda, which prioritizes unilateral national dominance, discarding environmental safeguards and ethical guardrails, and rejecting any ‘woke’ value, stands in direct opposition to the… ... Trump’s new AI agenda, which prioritizes unilateral national dominance, discarding environmental safeguards and ethical guardrails, and rejecting any ‘woke’ value, stands in direct opposition to the c...

Trump’s AI plan swaps ethics and environmental safeguards for unilateral dominance, betraying the human‑centred cooperation the world needs.
Unilateral AI domination jeopardizes us all.

#AI #ResponsibleAI #AIforAll #AIgovernance #globalAI

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#AI for Good of who? of whom?
Thank you @abeba.bsky.social for denouncing this charade and say loud and clear what many of us commenting on: #ITU's summit is more about washing than responsibility
#aiforgood

@unistuttgartiris.bsky.social presents its work to our wonderful advisory board - @vdignum.bsky.social, Bob Williamson, and Jens Birkholzer. @csindermann.bsky.social gave a great about the biases of people when seeking information from large-language models.

Click to care It started with a sentence in the screen: “You don't build machines; you build futures.” When Noor clicked Accept, she didn’t know she’d just enrolled in the world’s most rigorous AI ethics program.

Going completely out of my comfort zone, I'm sharing this short scifi I just wrote, when challenged to imagine a possible future where all AI development and use is responsible.
Comments are much welcome, but be gentle 😊, never attempted writing fiction before...
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Call for Fellowships Jan-June 2026 Are you working on groundbreaking ideas in AI policy, ethics, or governance? Do you have experience in interdisciplinary settings and thrive in collaborative environments? The AI Policy Lab at Umeå…

If you are working on how AI shapes and is shaped by society, this is your opportunity to join us as a fellow in 2026 at AI Policy Lab @Umeå University

🕐 Deadline: 1 June, 17:00 CET

#AIpolicy #AIgovernance #AIethics #responsibleAI #AI
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Time for a European Social Media Ecosystem | Virginia Dignum Publication alert! See our latest piece, co-authored with a brilliant team of international researchers and policymakers, exploring the impact of the current pivotal moment in global tech governance. ...

New publication!

As US platforms resist regulation, Europe has a chance to lead by building transparent, interoperable social media aligned with #humanvalues

Read more 👇
#TechGovernance #DSA #DMA #AIAct #Interoperability #DigitalSovereignty #Europe

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"Beyond the AI race: why global governance is the greatest innovation"
Read my new blog in #AIPEX: aipolicylab.se/2025/04/08/b...

I argue that AI governance is our greatest innovation challenge.

#ResponsibleAI is not the finish line. It is the only viable path forward.

#AIgovernance #AIethics

🏝️Insightful talk in sight!
🔔Join the webinar Responsible #AI: Governance, #Ethics, and Sustainable Innovation by Responsible #AI expert @vdignum.bsky.social
👉The event is organised as part of the European University of Technology lunchtime seminars series.
Read more: kt4democracy.eu/events/respo...

Socially intelligent AI | Civic AI Lab | Amsterdam Advancing society through civic-centered and community-minded AI technology. Civic AI Lab.

I've joined the University of Amsterdam, as a guest professor and upcoming co-director of Civic AI Lab 2.0.
Looking forward to collaborate and explore the potential of all what AI Policy Lab @Umeå University and SIAS can do together.
More information on the Civic AI Lab: www.civic-ai.nl

Bullying, berating Trump shows his worst self in Zelenskyy ambush The president said his horrific blowup would make ‘great television’ – the White House has rarely seen anything like this

Every time we think he cannot get worse, Trump manages go lower than lower.
Lies, intimidation, shouting... schoolyard bullies, that is what 'disrespect' really means.
It is now time for a united front, the US is changing sides, we need to be strong with Ukraine.
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I argued yesterday with both a head of a law department who'd written a book on AI accountability and a young PhD student, neither of whom really understood how or when to use generative AI. Please consider this a draft and give me feedback or other links. joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2025/02/gene...

Great news but it is beneath Europe's values to call it a race.
As a race, it will have only loosers, no one wins.

We need is a collective exploration. There are many unexplored paths to take, there are many strenghts, multidisciplinary, to apply.

We are in it together, not against each other.

But the big problem is that production seems to have gotten decoupled from any useful measure of progress. There is a whole science-of-science literature hand wringing about the fact that scientific production has increased ~exponentially but progress has not accelerated and has even slowed down.

Virginia Dignum on LinkedIn: #aiactionsummit #ai #aigovernance #responsibleai #aiactionsummit I'm not attending the Paris #AIActionsummit this week, but I've been asked repeatedly for my opinion on it, particularly regarding its leaked final statement…

I'm not at Paris #AIActionsummit, but here are my thoughts:

Leaked statement lacks urgent AI governance and misses key issues like power imbalances and current and future harms.

We need real, global action, not more words.
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#AI #AIgovernance #ResponsibleAI

STATEMENT: CAP’s Alondra Nelson Condemns Dangerous Repeal of AI Executive Order

My statement on the repeal of President Biden's Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence www.americanprogress.org/press/statem...

The Handmaid's Tale IRL? 😞😢

This morning I want leaders in Europe and the 🇪🇺 to stand up for European values, be in action mode, be calm AND courageous, show unity, provide reassurance, and show empathy. Thank you.

“Businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of successful businessmen” - Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (1968)

(Tech bros at inauguration. Where the #AI exec order was cancelled)
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Initial Rescissions Of Harmful Executive Orders And Actions – The White House By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as

A historical day?! Should I be sad, horrified, outraged, all of it?
Watching a president, no, a full-on dictator, signing decisions to a cheering mob of thousands? Freeing criminals, criminalising innocent, and torching the planet's future?
A list of all he signed: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

“A IA é um carro sem travões, guiado sem carta de condução, numa rua sem sinais”, alerta a especialista portuguesa Virgínia Dignum <p>“Inteligência artificial é o pior nome que podíamos ter arranjado para isto.” Quem o diz é a portuguesa Virgínia Dignum, radicada na Suécia, onde é professora catedrática de Inteligência Artificial...

It was fun and very interesting to give this interview to Expresso magazine, a long-read where I could discuss many of the core issues on current #AI and #AIgovernance developments.

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Thanks to the journalists Andre Manuel Correia and Rui Duarte Silva!

Interesting research about misinformation and radical right political parties.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/19401612241311886
#misinformation #radicalright #politics

This is a concerning development that is propagated by many organisations and governments. Not only is a way to push the problems forward but also ignores the complexities of the societal, organisational, environmental, and even technical, impact of such "solutions"

Exactly what I have saying all along

Virginia Dignum on LinkedIn: #countdown2025 #ai #aigovernance #ai #aigovernance #politics… 👊 Day 30: Missed opportunities 🎯 As 2024 draws to a close, my #countdown2025 series is also ending, and time to reflect on the biggest missed opportunity…

Day 30: missed opportunities #AIgovernance:
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