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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...
New Book Explores the Future of Personal Data After Death
“The Afterlife of Data: What Happens to Your Information When You Die and Why You Should Care” is a newly published book written by WASP-HS Assistant Professor Carl Öhman at Uppsala University....
Cyber Security in the Era of AI: Diverse Discussions at WASP-HS Online Event
At the WASP-HS-arranged event on 26 March 2024, participants from different domains such as cyber security development, border control, and academic research convened. The participants came together...
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...
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...
Embracing Critical Curiosity: Navigating the Societal Challenges of AI with WASP-HS
We live in a time when dinner conversations more often than not veer towards gloomy subjects – whether it be issues of national safety, planetary health or the ‘threat’ of AI for democracy, the...
