Inside the 2026 AI Index Report | Stanford HAI
HybridThe AI Index, currently in its ninth year, tracks, collates, distills, and visualizes data relating to artificial intelligence. What is changing in the field of AI? Join Stanford HAI’s AI […]
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Call for Abstracts: The Politics of GenAI Governance
João C. Magalhães (University of Manchester, UK), Klara Matusewicz (University of Manchester, UK), and Robert Gorwa (WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Germany) are organising a two-day workshop, The Politics of […]
What Digital Futures Do We (Not) Want?
VirtualDemocracies today face profound challenges, including the proliferation of fake news and online disinformation, the rise of digital authoritarianism and digital fascism, the big tech monopolies of online platforms […]
AI companion bots as a public health issue: A new framework for regulation
VirtualAI companion bots are reshaping how people connect, confide, and cope, with children and adolescents among their most active users. Even as evidence of their potential social and developmental harms […]
IPIE | Confronting AI-Generated Misinformation – What the Science Says
VirtualGenerative AI is changing how misinformation is produced, circulated, and perceived. What does the evidence tell us specifically about this cycle, opportunities to mitigate it, and what we don’t know yet? […]
Global Disinformation Summit 2026
VirtualThe GLOBAL SUMMIT ON DISINFORMATION is a space for global interaction where journalists, researchers, academics, fact-checkers, media and government representatives, civil society organizations, professors, and students meet annually to discuss, […]
David vs Goliath in the DSA era: Lessons from Bits of Freedom’s victory
VirtualArticle 38 of the EU Digital Services Act could be described as a masterpiece of legal drafting – 57 words to say very large online platforms must provide a version […]
We the Dead: Preserving Data at the End of the World
VirtualIn the late nineteenth century, the U.S. government and American corporations generated an unprecedented amount of paper records. The data complex emerged as a national network of repositories built to […]
Enforce on the DSA enforcers: how can Member States legally push the Commission to act?
VirtualThe DSA establishes a hybrid enforcement framework. The European Commission holds exclusive competence to supervise and enforce DSA obligations on Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) and Very Large Online Search […]
Fake News Festival 2026
European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) Große Scharrnstraße 59, Frankfurt, GermanyHow does our world change when artificial intelligence produces content faster than we can verify it? The Fake News Festival brings together science, practice, and the public to examine disinformation, artificial intelligence, and the future of our information society from diverse perspectives. In keynotes, lectures, and […]
AI and the future of teaching and learning | Brookings
VirtualAs generative AI rapidly reshapes classrooms around the globe, educators and decisionmakers are grappling with a major concern: How can generative AI be used to help, not harm, teaching and […]
The Luddite Conference on Participatory Futures | The New School
The New School’s Tishman Auditorium, 63 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY The New School's Tishman Auditorium, 63 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesWith companies like OpenAI taking Pentagon contracts and Elon Musk using government resources to scrape Americans’ data, it’s hard to feel that there are any tangible ways to resist the […]
China’s AI strategy and its impact on the global information space | EU Disinfo Lab
VirtualCan European software built on cheap Chinese AI models be trusted? As open-source model families like Alibaba’s Qwen surge in global popularity, an increasing number of international developers are quietly […]
World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum 2026
ITU Headquarters Pl. des Nations 1211, Geneva, SwitzerlandThe WSIS Forum serves as the central multistakeholder convening platform mandated to advance the implementation of the WSIS Action Lines and support global digital cooperation. Anchored in the renewed UNGA […]
A Materialist Critique of Technofascism | ECPR
VirtualIn this talk, Dr. Möllers parses the current debate on technofascism(s) to develop a materialist understanding of technofascist formations from Science and Technology Studies (STS) and anti-colonial perspectives. She demonstrates […]
AI Real Talk: Spotting AI Slop with Pangram’s CEO | Hacks/Hackers
VirtualThe company Pangram has built the leading product for detecting if purportedly human-written words were actually generated by machines. Their work was among the first to publicly prove the novel […]
Behind the screen: AI slop, young children, and the profit problem | Brookings
VirtualAI slop—low-quality, mass-produced content created by generative AI—is increasingly permeating the digital environments that young children encounter during what is the most critical period for their development and lifelong well-being. […]
12th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2)
University of Vermont Burlington, Vermont, United StatesThe International Conference for Computational Social Science (IC2S2) will be hosted by the Vermont Complex Systems Institute at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont from July 28-31, 2026. IC2S2 has emerged as the […]
JournalismAI Strategy Lab LATAM | Call for Applications
VirtualThe JournalismAI Strategy Lab is expanding, and this time we’re heading to Latin America. We’ve had a great response from the LATAM community over the years, and we’re excited to […]
5th Annual Civics of Technology Online Conference: Against Tech Hype
VirtualHype, hope, disappointment. Hype is the rhetoric of tech billionaires, of VCs, of tech-pushers, of AI boosters and AI doomers. Hype is about attention, grabbing it, holding it. Hype is […]