Artificially intelligent ‘bot’ accounts, junk news sites and fake online profiles: they’re all troll armies. Can we arm ourselves against fake news?

Het lijkt een lastige opgave om één nationaal gevoel uit te dragen. Je bent Delftenaar, Rotterdammer, Surinaams, yup, van Zuid of van Noord. De Nederlandse identiteit, bestaat die wel?

In 1991, a collaboration between a group of hippies, performance artists, and scientists resulted in Biosphere 2: a futuristic structure designed to house a perfect replica of Earth’s ecosystem.

Buildings, museums and monuments can be manifestations of national pride and glory, but also increasingly confront us with our problematic past. These symbols tell stories of conquest, victory and heroism, while simultaneously representing narratives of repression, racism or even genocide, the latter part not being included in the dominant memory culture.

Come see the tools, the challenges, and the highs and lows of fact checking the worst and the silliest BS that humans can come up with.

The Matrix was vooral dystopische sciencefiction toen het uitkwam. Anno 2020 lijkt het steeds accurater. AI neemt steeds meer over in onze maatschappij, de mensheid is verslaafd aan de nepwereld van het internet en Techbedrijven zuigen alle informatie uit ons, alsof we menselijke batterijen zijn die hun systemen voeden.

Picture a scientist. What do you see? Most people don’t imagine a woman. An important reason is that women in general didn’t have the same chances or gotten the same amount of respect as men got in science.

One day media researcher Joy Buolamwini of MIT finds out that facial recognition programs have difficulty in recognizing her dark face. This leads to further research on racial identity and artificial intelligence.

Nowadays, more and more people are being diagnosed with a mental disease. Science may now have found the solution for the likes of depression, Tourette and various compulsive disorders: Deep Brain Stimulation.

What will happen to public debate and to democracy if we let ourselves be influenced and steered by for-profit multinational tech-giants?

In onze maatschappij is verveling een vies woord. We kunnen het vaak ook niet goed. Bij ieder dreigend loos moment pakken we onze telefoon en gaan we op zoek naar verstrooiing.