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Professor at Faculty of Information and Media Studies, Western University, London, Canada. Director of the Language and Information Technology Lab.

London, Ontario
Joined November 2011
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@VictoriaRubin
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"Support your libraries!" says John Oliver: https://t.co/BcpAXRb0yk
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@VictoriaRubin
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2 years
On strength and resilience. Can trauma be seen as a gift, if it allows post-traumatic growth? Think kintsugi... https://t.co/Kj2NiLDX1G
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@VictoriaRubin
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2 years
10 new updates on my blog @westernuFIMS @WesternU including an upcoming grad course on #Conversational #AI in #NaturalLangProcessing (#NLP) Fall2024 + a freshly started project on #wellbeing https://t.co/ddBvIVm4KK
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@BresciaFaculty
Brescia Faculty Association (BFA)
2 years
We support striking @PSAC610 teaching assistants at @WesternU! Show your support by writing to Western's admin and letting them know you support living wages for teaching assistants!
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UWO Faculty Association
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@WesternU @SGPSWesternU resorting to strike breaking tactics is not good-faith bargaining! Rain or shine we will be standing in solidarity with our GTAs and colleagues @PSAC610
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@westernuFIMS
Faculty of Information & Media Studies (FIMS)
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Libraries are a tale as old as time. In one week, Emily Drabinski, president of the American Library Association, will join us to discuss the struggles libraries are facing and what they need for support. Register here: https://t.co/B60LQCA39G @WesternU @edrabinski @ALALibrary
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Faculty of Information & Media Studies (FIMS)
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📅Save the date! On April 9 at 7 pm Emily Drabinski, president of the American Library Association, joins us at @MuseumLondon to discuss strategies and tactics to keep libraries strong for our communities📚 Learn more: https://t.co/U5Sivg9wM1 @ALALibrary @edrabinski @WesternU
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@VictoriaRubin
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2 years
'This is garbage': Step aside, influencers — we're now in the era of de-influencing
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on NPR One | 14:39
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@VictoriaRubin
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2 years
AI images and conspiracy theories are driving a push for media literacy education
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Morning Edition on NPR One | 3:50
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2 years
27 governments agreed on 4 categories of AI risks
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European Union lawmakers have approved the bloc's "Artificial Intelligence Act."
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2 years
https://t.co/sfP8PxPTUC “examples the authors are concerned about include “massively scaled” disinformation campaigns powered by AI that destabilize society and erode trust in institutions; … psychological manipulation ...”
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A new report commissioned by the US State Department paints an alarming picture of the “catastrophic” national security risks posed by rapidly evolving artificial intelligence and warns time is...
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Christiane Amanpour
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Kyiv and Kharkiv – a tale of two cities, surviving in their own ways, two years into Russia’s full scale invasion. For some, it’s a cultural fight to preserve Ukraine’s identity, as much as it is a military fight on the frontlines -- as novelist Andrey Kurkov tells me.
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@VictoriaRubin
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“Tech giants lay out plan to fight AI election deepfakes” it’s a voluntary non-binding agreement but at least it’s on the right path to “police” online deceptive uses of AI https://t.co/9PP5Ttzohg
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Fears over how AI could be used to mislead voters are escalating in a year that will see hundreds of millions of people around the world cast ballots. As a result, tech giants are pledging action.
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@VictoriaRubin
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2 years
Introducing the new chatbot called Goody-2 — what does it do?
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Morning Edition on NPR One | 2:14
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@VictoriaRubin
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2 years
Non-deceptive non-nefarious use of AI. Full disclosure and family consent: “Victims of gun violence and mass shootings lobby Congress from beyond the grave” https://t.co/RlTHXBMfjm
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On the 6th anniversary of the mass shooting in Parkland, Fla., gun control advocates experiment with AI-generated audio messages of recreated voices of victims of gun violence pleading for change.
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@VictoriaRubin
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2 years
Non-deceptive non-nefarious use of AI. Full disclosure and family consent: “Victims of gun violence and mass shootings lobby Congress from beyond the grave” https://t.co/RlTHXBMfjm
npr.org
On the 6th anniversary of the mass shooting in Parkland, Fla., gun control advocates experiment with AI-generated audio messages of recreated voices of victims of gun violence pleading for change.
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