Buolamwini is a computer scientist from MIT, who rose to stardom while doing research proving how artificial intelligence programs were trained on very skewed and distorted amounts of data. As Buolamwini does research on artificial intelligence in image processing, she discovers how algorithmic bias underlies many programs, and the coded gaze excludes her own face from being detected by an AI program.
The American Wolf Warriors
During the reign of Xi Jinping Chinese diplomacy, the dominant approach to other countries, with the exception of Russia, has been to call forth the Wolf Warriors. In just a matter of a few years, China went from a rather respected cooperative partner to being an enemy. Now the Trump administration has turned into Wolf Warriors.
Harvesting US agencies for Grok?
Few have escaped the unconstitutional encroachments of Elon Musk(olini) into US agencies, with his team of followers – presumably harvesting data on the population for the faltering Grok AI.
And so it begins
It’s time fot the big finale: the writing of the master’s thesis! Last year I tried to get a scholarship…
A visit to Brussels
In October our class went to Belgium with the purpose of visiting the European Week of Regions and Cities 2024 during our course on the European Union. We lived in Mechelen, a nice city north of Brussels.
Restricted aid to Ukraine
I planned to write this text regarding USA, Ukraine, Russia, Israel, Iran, North Korea, China and Trump a month ago, but didn’t have the time.
Between the US presidential election and the inauguration of Donald Trump, many pundits and military analysts had hopeful discussions on how Trump could help Ukraine more than the Biden administration. I really couldn’t see this.
Book review: World on the Brink
Sinea deterrendae sunt – China must be deterred. That is the maxim of World on the Brink: How America can beat China in the race for the Twenty-First Century by Dmitri Alperovitch (and Garrett M. Graff). The title is self-revelatory, because the book is mainly about China, the United States and Taiwan.
Book review: The Alignment Problem
Probably you’ve heard about reinforcement learning in conversations on AI. It originates from psychology and animal behaviourism, like so many other parts of the field of AI (neural networks and temporal differences are two others), while others touch philosophical issues and conundrums humans have pondered on for centuries. Brian Christian, like Johan Harri, travels the world to interview lots of people about how to get machines to understand and obey humans.
Evaluating gender among minorities in relation to the CHIPS and Science Act
Recently we produced three papers during a course on policy analysis, one of which I wrote about the American legislation The CHIPS and Science Act, gender and race.
Book review: Stolen Focus
“How to slow down in a world that is speeding up?” Johann Hari writes in the book Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention – and How to Think Deeply Again. He outlines twelve problems for our individual and collective attention span, ability to focus.