Dr. Agnes E. Venema
@gnesvenema
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#Deepfake & #Security #Policy expert | #HybridThreats, #NatSec & #Intelligence @Mariecurie_alum | tweets on #tech #law #policy (+puns) caveats apply
European Union 🇪🇺 & ME
Joined November 2017
It's 2021 and we have a new addition to the #deepfakes thread that I'll keep pinned (for now) so you can easily access all stuff I've done on them. Last week I gave comments for an article in @thetimes following the #TomCruise #TikTokviral videos. #AI
https://t.co/zG9j5PsdpL
thetimes.com
In The Times at the weekend, the Belgian visual effects editor Chris Ume gave a warning about deepfake technology. “I think there should be laws that help with
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"If you're not paying for it, you're the product" comes to mind.
This is wild. 143 million people thought they were catching Pokémon. They were actually building one of the largest real-world visual datasets in AI history. Niantic just disclosed that photos and AR scans collected through Pokémon Go have produced a dataset of over 30 billion
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I am truly speechless
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WSJ reporting that the U.S. used Claude for the air strikes in Iran. Report says Centcom has been using Claude "for intelligence assessments, target identification and simulating battle scenarios"
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And why is human oversight critical? Because even *with* human oversight, AI does things like this 👇🏻 https://t.co/GHbsJbiV0V
Nothing humbles you like telling your OpenClaw “confirm before acting” and watching it speedrun deleting your inbox. I couldn’t stop it from my phone. I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb.
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Human oversight is absolutely critical. I wrote a good chunk of my PhD on this (I would even say *meaningful* human oversight) as have tons of academics, NGOs, think-tank, and IOs. Lack of human oversight is a tactical risk and I see legal issues too. I'm w/ #Anthropic on this
At high stakes Pentagon meeting today Sec Hegseth gave Anthropic head Dario Amodei ultimatum to allow the Pentagon to use Anthropic’s AI model for mass domestic surveillance and kinetic autonomous operations without human oversight or face censure and be labeled “supply chain
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Jorrit Bergsma, at 40 year old, just won gold in the most amazing race at the Men's Mass Start #Olympics2026 What a fantastic achievement, gracefully helped by Van De Bunt. #SpeedSkating
#TeamNL #matje #Matties
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With escalation on the horizon, Iraq is holding its breath: escaped former Da'esh fighters to the west, potential for regime changing conflict to the east, and plenty of factions in the middle forced to take a side when push comes to shove.
The U.S. Department of Defense has spent the week amassing a very large force in Europe and the Middle East with over 100 aircraft arriving just this week as tensions continue with Iran. Currently in Europe/U.S. European Command: 36 - F-35s 24 - F-15s 28 - F-16s 12 - F-22s 18 -
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This local Wolfdog joined an Olympic ski event and triggered the finish-line camera. This is Nazgul. He snuck into a cross-country skiing sprint this morning and raced the homestretch with some competitors before being escorted home. 14/10 someone get him a medal
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Roses are red, Violets are blue, When you omit me, Chaos ensues. With love, warmth, and wit, The Oxford Comma
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This segment from @jaketapper's @TheLeadCNN details why digitally undressing is problematic. So riddle me this @CNN, why do you take money from companies for them to display this 👇🏻 advertisement on your app? Feel free to respond @cnni & @cnnarabic
#deepfakes #DigitalMarketing
Elon Musk defends AI chatbot Grok’s ability to digitally undress images of real people
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BREAKING: The Netherlands is scaling back anti-drug ops with the US in the Caribbean. Dutch naval vessels will now patrol only territorial waters, after US attacks on suspected drug ships killed over 100 people without trial, outgoing Defense Minister Brekelmans says.
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I am excited to announce X has finally, after years of reporting hate speech on this platform, agreed to suspend an account based on a report of mine (and presumably others) on January 6th '26. Action was swift. There's still some folks doing good over at X.
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Welcome Moldova and Ukraine to the EU roaming free area! As of today, you can ‘roam like at home’ because we are preparing a home for you in the European Union. The benefits of our Union bring Europeans across the continent closer together - also ahead of EU accession.
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Betty Reid Soskin, the trailblazing National Park Service ranger who became the oldest active ranger until her retirement at age 100, passed away peacefully Sunday morning surrounded by family. She was 104. Thank you for your service, Ranger Betty.
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Legendary 🎸 https://t.co/PWYLslceyW
Steve Cropper, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame guitarist who helped form the “Memphis soul” sound on Stax Records recordings by Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, and Booker T & The M.G.’s, has died at age 84. https://t.co/UAlEgFvHgr
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PCLOB has released the first comprehensive government report on the FBI's use of open source information in support of its counterterrorism efforts. Read it here: https://t.co/WSYJAUfz3b
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NEWS: An AFP fact-check reveals that a video posted by Donald Trump and the White House depicting "chaos" in Chicago as justification for deploying the national guard features old footage of incidents in other states including Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska.
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📢Watch Live: 26 Sept - 10 am EDT Conference on the Repatriation of Persons from Al Hol, Surrounding Camps & Places of Detention w/ 🇮🇶#Iraq President H.E. @LJRashid 🇺🇳USG for policy @GuyRyder 🇺🇳Acting USG @UN_OCT Zouev 👉Info https://t.co/PrPX0nnWIG 📺 https://t.co/BScuuuEBnU
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Organized by the Government of the Republic of Iraq with the support of theUnited Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT)
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German introspection ""It was what we now refer to as the legalization of injustice," explains Kunze." https://t.co/CoYAe2Niru Experts say Germany has not overcome the mentality that led to the 1935 Nuremberg laws, which legitimized discrimination against Jews @DeutscheWelle
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I think today is a fine day for folks to read up on Karl Popper's Paradox of Tolerance.
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