WASP-HS Study Visit: Beyond Laboratory Life in Boston
Over the course of two days, a bunch of us WASP-HS PhD students had the privilege of visiting five cutting-edge laboratories and research environments: the HCI Lab, SERC, MIT Media Lab, Autonomous Vehicles Policy Initiative, and the MIT Center for Constructive...
Synthetic Data – Magic Sauce or Mind the Hype?
In 1987 Robert Kraut, then a Bell Labs scientist, asked whether and how technology can be introduced “to exploit its usefulness without exploiting its users”. More than three decades on, we continue to wonder how to intervene in the continually evolving...
Cyber Security: For Whom and At What Cost?
In the realm of technology and artificial intelligence (AI), we stand at a critical juncture that forces us to confront questions as ancient as humanity itself. The recent WASP-HS community reference meeting, AI and Cyber Security, I attended, brought these...
Better Safe Than Sorry: Reflections on the Artificial Intelligence Act
On December 8, 2023, the European Parliament and the Council reached an agreement on the final compromise text[1] of the Artificial Intelligence Act (AIA). It is expected that the European Parliament will vote for the AIA on March 13, 2024. [2] The...
