Hannes Cools

'The golden age of oligarchy' 🫠🫠
Oil on canvas, January 20th 2025.

#inauguration

Journalists that were killed worldwide... 😢
2021: 47
2022: 68
2023: 120
This is unforgivable. Source:
https://europeanjournalists.org/blog/2024/01/01/120-journalists-and-media-workers-killed-in-2023-says-ifj/

💥🇪🇺 EU AI ACT CHEAT SHEET 💥🇪🇺

Understand the key elements of the AI Act in 1 minute and get acquainted with this landmark regulatory development.
(Courtesy of Oliver Patel.)

📣📣 Survey on Generative AI in newsrooms 📣📣

Together with
@AP@press.coop, Northwestern University, and
@uva_amsterdam@akademienl.social, we have worked on a survey to better understand how the news industry approaches generative AI.

🔗Link survey: https://research.net/r/AP-Gen-AI?source=28NovEmail

Please spread!! Boost = 🫶

🚨New pub🚨
Book chapter by me, Baldwin Van Gorp & @Michael_Opgenhaffen@sciences.social on the levels of automation and autonomy in the AI-augmented newsroom. Now published in The Research Handbook on AI and Communication. 👇
Book: https://bitly.ws/32MkF
Link pub: https://bitly.ws/32MkX

Interesting. 🧐
The Netherlands is going to develop its own open language model.
@MinisterieEZK
invests 13,5 million euro in 'GPT-NL' which will be an open and transparent model.
https://www.digitaleoverheid.nl/nieuws/nederland-bouwt-eigen-open-taalmodel-gpt-nl/

📣 FINAL CALL: Survey Generative AI in newsrooms 📣

Last chance to contribute to this survey on how the news industry approaches generative AI. Results are expected early 2024.

-- RT = 👏🤩

🔗Link survey: https://www.research.net/r/AP-Gen-AI?source=Twitter

@ndiakopoulos@hci.social @Nhelberger@someone.elses.computer @AP@press.coop

✨Very excited to start teaching 'Data Journalism' at @UvA_ASCoR@akademienl.social to the Erasmus Mundus Journalism Students very soon! Looking forward, together with Frederic Hopp!

Interesting 🧐 OpenAI launches $200 ChatGPT subscription for research use 👇🏼
https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/openai-launches-200-chatgpt-subscription-research-use-2024-12-05/

🆘 The budget cuts in higher education are unprecedented in The Netherlands (1 billion euro!). I wrote an opinion piece on why promising, and often young scientists are hit disproportionately hard by these cuts 👇
https://www.folia.nl/en/opinie/163852/young-scientists-hit-disproportionately-hard-by-cuts

ICYMI:

✨ 𝐉𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐠𝐞𝐳𝐨𝐜𝐡𝐭! ✨
Werk je al eens met 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘦 𝘈𝘐? Of totaal nog niet? Vul dan onze survey in over generatieve AI op redacties in Nederland & België.

Repost = Verantwoord gebruik AI 😅

Link: https://ugent.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6hhn1AB9QYAXkeW

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📣📣 Call For Papers 📣📣

Working on AI in News Media & Journalism? Apply for our ECREA pre-conference: "Mapping AI Actor Constellations. Critical Perspectives on Power (Im-)balances, Autonomy, & Reconfigured Practices"

🗓️ Sep 24, Ljubljana

Info👇

https://ecrea2024journalismai.wordpress.com/

Interesting. 🔮
Every year, @mit@mastodon.social @techreview@press.coop looks for promising technologies poised to have a real impact on the world. Here are some of the 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2024:

1. AI for everything
2. Super-efficient solar cells
...
10. Twitter killer platforms
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/01/08/1085094/10-breakthrough-technologies-2024/?truid=851d3595229abcac3fe16319516faaca&utm_source=the_download&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the_download.unpaid.engagement&utm_term=&utm_content=01-08-2024&mc_cid=e7aed65a57&mc_eid=289f70eeec#twitter-killers

Beleeft Nederland haar ’zwarte woensdag’? PVV van Wilders nu al ruim de grootste partij. Meeste zetels ooit #NederlandKiest

The Guardian Weekly’s clever cover on the future of AI. However, I do not think that this utopian-dystopian imaginaties benefit a nuanced discussion on the (future) impact of AI. 🧐

Guest lecture season 🤩 Next week, I'll be giving two lectures, one in Brussels at @kuleuven
on (generative) AI & journalism, and one in Gent @UGentComWet on innovation & journalism. Thanks for the invite, Cato Waeterloos & Kristin Van Damme!