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#PolComms #Disinformation #Misinformation #EmotionalAI Exploring whether information really does want to be free. My own views, not my employer's

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Vian Bakir (Prof. of Journalism & PolComms)
9 months
I’d like to draw attention to our book (co-edited with Emma L Briant, Monash University): The Routledge Handbook of the Influence Industry. This Handbook provides the first comprehensive examination of the Influence Industry and how it operates worldwide.
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This Handbook provides the first comprehensive examination of the influence industry and how it operates worldwide across different domains. The rapid evolution of emerging technologies and data-dr...
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Vian Bakir (Prof. of Journalism & PolComms)
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AI tells me I have an AI-generated review of my chapter (with @digi_ad ) critiquing the future of emotional AI in the false information field. Feels like too many AIs!. The AI review : The (free) chapter: Make up your own mind.
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Me and @digi_ad argue AI companions are flawed. We provide 7 ways to redesign them, incl. remedies for over-attachment & dependency; removal of metrics based on extending engagement via personal info disclosure; & promotion of AI literacy. @EmotionalAI.
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AI & SOCIETY - Riffing off move fast and break things, the internal motto coined by Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, this paper examines the ethical dimensions of human relationships with AI...
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RT @VianBakir1: I’d like to draw attention to our book (co-edited with Emma L Briant, Monash University): The Routledge Handbook of the In….
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This Handbook provides the first comprehensive examination of the influence industry and how it operates worldwide across different domains. The rapid evolution of emerging technologies and data-dr...
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RT @EmotionalAI: Interest is growing in use of general purpose AI to empathise, especially through partners, companions, and so on. If you….
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IEEE UK and Ireland SSIT Webinar | Automating Empathy in Human-AI Partnerships: Issues, Ethics and Governance by Prof Andrew McStay, Bangor University IEEE UK and Ireland SSIT Chapter and SSIT...
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RT @digi_ad: A total pleasure to be a guest on the @BBCRadio4's 'Artificial Human', discussing whether AI can read emotions. The angle on….
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Aleks Krotoski and Kevin Fong find out if AI can read emotions.
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RT @responsibleaiuk: The Ethics of Emulated Empathy: Considering the Significance of Anthropic and Hume’s Collaboration! Dive into this int….
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A timely piece from @digi_ad on AI companions and kids.
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What happens when your child’s toy appears to care for them – but doesn’t really?
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RT @ucu: “Universities are in crisis and the government must act.”. We welcome the Education Committee’s inquiry into university finances.….
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RT @ucu: Bangor university gives its vice chancellor a 13% pay rise then cuts dozens of jobs. Handing out massive pay rises while frontlin….
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A trade union says vice chancellor's pay rise could have saved multiple university staff jobs.
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Vian Bakir (Prof. of Journalism & PolComms)
9 months
Chapters 1 and 2 are freely available on Google Books: We hope you enjoy reading it.
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Vian Bakir (Prof. of Journalism & PolComms)
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We also think about what could be done to expose and stymie the unethical impulses of the Influence Industry.
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Vian Bakir (Prof. of Journalism & PolComms)
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We explore the recent technical, political and economic development of this Influence Industry, surveying the extent and impacts of different technologies and services offered to clients worldwide across multiple domains (commercial, political, national security and government).
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Vian Bakir (Prof. of Journalism & PolComms)
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We also consider the increasingly datafied infrastructure and actors behind an advanced array of capabilities increasingly based on surveillant profiling that can be used in a coordinated way to affect an audience’s emotions, ideas, and behaviors.
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Vian Bakir (Prof. of Journalism & PolComms)
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Our book, and its many contributors, analyses the expansion of the notoriously obscure and therefore under-researched Influence Industry, its development, political economy and its role in unethical conduct, disinformation and data-driven influence operations worldwide.
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Vian Bakir (Prof. of Journalism & PolComms)
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We define the Influence Industry as comprising deliberate attempts to advance an actor’s goal using data-driven profiling of audiences across interconnected private sector and state systems to encourage behavior change in targeted audiences.
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Vian Bakir (Prof. of Journalism & PolComms)
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RT @Sam_Marsh101: Are the dark days at @USSPensions really over? Let's hope so. It is worth noting that the scheme is, essentially, under n….
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Vian Bakir (Prof. of Journalism & PolComms)
2 years
RT @BergerBrakes: @USSpensions Thanks to the sterling work of the @ucu and others @cupofassam. The USS fought a lot of this tooth and nail.
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Vian Bakir (Prof. of Journalism & PolComms)
2 years
RT @BangorUni: Happy New Year from all of us at Bangor University! 🎉🎆
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