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By Natali Helberger • March 06, 2025
The rise of technology courts
When we talk about the power of Big Tech in terms of structural dependency or strategic autonomy,...
By Charis Papaevangelou • February 28, 2025
State, platform capitalism and infrastructural power: Microsoft's data centres in Greece 2.0
In recent years, data centres have become critical infrastructures, supporting cloud computing,...
By José van Dijck • February 26, 2025
Misinformatie in de gezondheidszorg
In de nieuwste aflevering van De Stem van de Dokter duiken Federatievoorzitter Piet-Hein Buiting...
By Albert Meijer • José van Dijck • February 24, 2025
Universiteit, maak je los van Big Tech
Laat de wetenschap een voortrekker zijn met digitale soevereiniteit, schrijven AlgoSoc onderzoekers...
By Fabio Votta • February 24, 2025
AI transparency in political campaigns: The CampAIgn Tracker for the 2025 German Election
For political campaigns, Artificial intelligence (AI) has introduced both innovative strategies...
By Natali Helberger • February 13, 2025
De concentratie van macht over AI is ondemocratisch
Wat gebeurt er als een van de politiek machtigste mannen ter wereld de controle krijgt over een...
By Seda Gürses • Roel Dobbe • February 13, 2025
(Hoe) blijven universiteiten baas over hun bestanden in de cloud?
Universiteiten zijn te afhankelijk geworden van grote Amerikaanse ict-bedrijven, vinden veel...
By José van Dijck • February 12, 2025
Grote techbedrijven manipuleren onze meningen
Amerikaanse socialmediaplatforms schaften moderatie en factchecken af, onder het mom van vrijheid...
By Moniek Buijzen • February 11, 2025
Let's take back control of social media
A handful of Big Tech multimillionaires are influencing our information, our politics and our...
By João Pedro Quintais • January 31, 2025
Generative AI, copyright and the AI Act
Written by Joao Pedro Quintais and published in the Journal of Intellectual Property, Information...
By Charis Papaevangelou • January 27, 2025
Free speech was never the goal of tech billionaires. Power was.
Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to dismantle Meta’s US fact-checking partnerships...
By José van Dijck • January 13, 2025
Building a European Digital Ecosystem
AlgoSoc principal investigator Prof. José van Dijck, Distinguished University Professor of Media...
By José van Dijck • January 13, 2025
Kan het ook anders op sociale media?
Nu na Elon Musk ook Meta-baas Mark Zuckerberg moderatie wil afschaffen, groeit de behoefte aan...
By José van Dijck • January 06, 2025
AlgoSoc kiest voor alternatieve cloud
Onderzoekers van vijf universiteiten gaan experimenteren. Ze willen hun onlinesamenwerking...
By Donovan van der Haak • December 18, 2024
The Tech Coup
On December 12, 2024, AlgoSoc, in collaboration with the Faculty of Law at the University of...
By Ernesto de León • December 10, 2024
AlgoSoc Longitudinal Effects panel
Dataset authored by Ernesto de León, Jin Wan, Fabio Votta, Donovan van der Haak, Oberski, Daniel,...
By Nathalie van Doorn • December 02, 2024
Registration AlgoSoc International Conference 2025 is now open
We are excited to announce that registration for AlgoSoc’s international conference The Future of...
By Leonie Westerbeek • November 22, 2024
From dialogue to decision
Falling is one of the leading causes of injury among older people (65+), with medication as a...
By Kätliin Kelder • November 07, 2024
CK v Dun & Bradstreet Austria (C-203/22): The case that ends the GDPR right to explanation debate?
The opinion of Advocate General (AG) de la Tour in CK v Dun & Bradstreet Austria published in...
By Seda Gürses • October 17, 2024
From infrastructural power to redistribution
In 2024, the European Union sits at the axis of vast power shifts: rising far-right influence,...
By Johan Wolswinkel • October 11, 2024
Good administration in a digital environment: Towards a right to algorithmic decision-making?
The Directorate of Constitutional Affairs and Legislation of the Ministry of the Interior and...
By Albert Meijer • October 03, 2024
Plea for the introduction of a 'monitorial power'
The Directorate of Constitutional Affairs and Legislation of the Ministry of the Interior and...
By Natali Helberger • Claes de Vreese • June 28, 2024
Caught between grand ambitions and small print: The AI Act and the use of GenAI in elections
How will generative AI affect elections? On the evening of the European Parliament elections, the...
By Kätliin Kelder • June 18, 2024
AI in the justice sector: a force to be reckoned with
On June 6th 2024, Algosoc hosted an online interactive roundtable on the AI Act and its impact on...
By Charis Papaevangelou • Fabio Votta • May 29, 2024
Content moderation and platform observability in the Digital Services Act
Social media platforms may feel like open spaces for public deliberation, yet they rely...
By Agustin Ferrari Braun • Charis Papaevangelou • May 27, 2024
Journalism in the age of AI, platformisation, and regulation
Digital platforms have fundamentally transformed infrastructures of communication and, in so...
By Ernesto de León • Fabio Votta • Theo Araujo • Claes de Vreese • May 17, 2024
Emerging generational fault lines in public opinion on Artificial Intelligence
Since 2022, there has been a lot of attention to generative artificial intelligence (AI),...
By José van Dijck • May 06, 2024
Sustainability in the digital world
Prof. José van Dijck has been a Distinguished University Professor of Media and Digital Society...
By Kätliin Kelder • April 26, 2024
On the relative importance of the AI Act right to explanation
The initial Commission proposal for the AI Act focused on establishing requirements and...
April 09, 2024
‘AI Act als bodem, ethiek als plafond’
Op 2 april 2024 namen AlgoSoc hoofdonderzoekers Natali Helberger, universiteitshoogleraar Recht...
April 03, 2024
The EU AI Act and its implications for the media sector
As the first comprehensive law on artificial intelligence, all eyes are currently on the European...
By Dhavan Shah • February 19, 2024
Navigating the rapid technological evolution is one of the key challenges for AlgoSoc
Professor Dhavan Shah, McLeod Professor of Communication Research and Louis A. and Mary E....
By José van Dijck • February 13, 2024
'Waarborg grondrechten in de digitale ruimte'
De afgelopen drie decennia heeft AlgoSoc principle investigator José van Dijck het internet...
By Corinne Cath • January 10, 2024
On the importance of a more diverse and inclusive tech sector
On the occasion of her nomination as one of the "100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics", we...
By José van Dijck • Natali Helberger • Corien Prins • December 22, 2023
Een wildgroei aan ongereguleerde AI- toepassingen
De Europese AI-wet stelt teleur, schrijven José van Dijck, Natali Helberger en Corien Prins, want...
By José van Dijck • December 07, 2023
Observe, inspect, modify: Three conditions for generative AI governance
In a world increasingly shaped by generative AI systems like ChatGPT, the absence of benchmarks...
By Corien Prins • November 30, 2023
How’s life? About the role of public values on well-being in an AI-dominated world
Keynote delivered by Prof. Corien Prins, Professor of Law and Informatization at Tilburg...
By Claes de Vreese • November 28, 2023
A wave of generative AI disinformation?
The broad roll out of generative AI tools poses new challenges for democracies: Generative AI...
By Roel Dobbe • November 23, 2023
‘Safety Washing’ at the AI Safety Summit
Earlier this month (November 1-2, 2023), tech companies and world leaders gathered at Bletchley...
By Corien Prins • November 21, 2023
Artificial Intelligence and the Judiciary
With developments such as ChatGPT and the upcoming AI Act of the European Union, the Judiciary...
By José van Dijck • October 05, 2023
AlgoSoc PI José van Dijck adviseert de overheid over regulering ChatGPT en andere generatieve AI
Overal ter wereld staan overheden voor de uitdagingen die kunstmatige intelligentie (AI)...
By Natali Helberger • Claes de Vreese • March 06, 2023
What kind of algorithmic society do we want to strive for?
Algorithmic decision-systems are increasingly central to our lives. In some situations they even...
By Natali Helberger • Claes de Vreese • April 20, 2023
Leveraging the potential of AI while promoting social and economic welfare for all
Algorithmic decision-systems are increasingly central to our lives. In some situations they even...
By José van Dijck • October 05, 2023
Foundation models and the privatization of public knowledge
To protect the integrity of knowledge production, the training procedures of foundation models...
By Roel Dobbe • June 19, 2023
'AI-industrie strooit zand in onze ogen'
De discussie over de gevaren van artificiële intelligentie (AI) wordt gekaapt door de...
By Claes de Vreese • May 15, 2023
AI and Political Communication
How will artificial intelligence (AI) impact the field of political communication? This seems to...
By José van Dijck • March 06, 2023
Idealisme van OpenAI lijkt niet meer dan een luchtballon
Nu de hype rondom ChatGPT en Dall-E luwt, wordt het tijd om licht te schijnen op het gedachtegoed...
By Corien Prins • May 18, 2021
Discriminerende algoritmes
Afgelopen maand toonden zowel de Europese Commissie als de Tweede Kamer zich streng in het...
By Corien Prins • April 20, 2023
AI vraagt om veel meer dan het indrukken van een pauzeknop
Doemscenario's over AI zijn veelal ongefundeerd, schrijft AlgoSoc co-PI Corien Prins samen met...
By Natali Helberger • April 20, 2023
ChatGPT and the AI Act
It is not easy being a tech regulator these days. The European institutions are working hard...
By José van Dijck • April 20, 2023
Masterclass ChatGPT
AlgoSoc PI José van Dijck, hoogleraar Media en Digitale Samenleving aan Universiteit Utrecht, gaf...
By José van Dijck • April 20, 2023
AI vraagt ook bestuurlijke intelligentie
Hoe zorgen we dat onze instituties de technologie weer kunnen bijbenen? Volgens José van Dijck...
By Natali Helberger • Claes de Vreese • April 20, 2023
The EU is going too far with political advertising!
The EU is set to complement the DSA with a new regulation on (targeted) political advertisements....
By Corien Prins • January 28, 2022
Rutte IV: toezichtreflex en Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens
Deze week is – met 28 januari als de Dag van de Privacy – een mooi moment om iets over de...
By Natali Helberger • April 19, 2023
On the draft European Media Freedom Act
In December last year, Twitter suspended without notification the accounts of several leading...
By Natali Helberger • April 20, 2023
The platform-media relationship in the European Media Freedom Act
The European Media Freedom Act (EMFA) proposal takes aim at very large online platforms’...
By Corien Prins • November 22, 2022
Van een verbod op TikTok naar de noodzakelijke cloudstrategie in het juridische domein
Onlangs bepleitte de ChristenUnie een verbod op de filmpjes-app TikTok. Aanleiding is het risico...
By José van Dijck • April 20, 2023
Hoe weet je of een kennisbron als ChatGPT deugt?
De werkwijze van AI-kennissystemen (zoals ChatGPT) moet transparant en controleerbaar zijn. Dit...
