Jesse is a Principal Researcher with the Mozilla Foundation. He has worked with data and statistics since 2009 including with Mozilla, Google, and Statistics Canada. His current work includes crowdsourced research to power Mozilla’s policy and advocacy initiatives, advising on tech policy, especially the DSA, studying the impact of generative AI on elections, and evaluating the effectiveness of tools for identifying AI-generated or -modified content. He is also investigating concrete ways to help the public understand issues in AI ethics, including studying the biases in generative AI. Jesse is also an author and public speaker on a range of topics from tech policy to responsible AI. You can see a selection of his works here.
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Data Science | Generative AI | DSA | Recommender Systems | Bias/Fairness
Symeon (Akis) Papadopoulos is a computer scientist and principal researcher at CERTH-ITI. He currently leads the Media Analysis, Verification and Retrieval (MeVer) group of CERTH-ITI. He specialises in AI methods for image and video analysis with a focus on media verification and trustworthy AI.
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Deepfake Detection | Media Verification | Multimedia Retrieval | AI Fairness | Trustworthy AI
Lidia Dutkiewicz is a doctoral researcher at CiTiP. In her research, she analyses the legal and ethical implications of AI in media. Her focus is on the impact of algorithmic content moderation on the freedom and pluralism of the media and the power imbalance between media and online platforms. In the ALGEPI project, she investigates the role of algorithmic gatekeepers and assesses legal and ethical requirements for trustworthy news recommender systems. Lidia also acts as an ethical advisor in the vera.ai (VERification Assisted by Artificial Intelligence).
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Media Law | Legal | Content Moderation | AI Ethics | Online Platforms
She holds an LL.M. in IP & ICT Law cum laude from the KU Leuven and a Master in law cum laude with a specialization in European Law from the Université Catholique de Louvain.
Noémie currently works on the following projects:
– AI4Media, an excellence centre about AI for the Society and the Media Industry.
– MediaFutures, a data-driven innovation hub supporting innovative ideas to solve media challenges such as disinformation.
She has provided guest lectures in Aleksandra Kuczerawy’s Media law class of the KU Leuven programme Master of Intellectual Property and ICT Law (LL.M.). She is also an Editorial Board Member of the AI Media Observatory. The Observatory publishes content focusing on the impact of AI in the media sector from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Her publications are accessible here and on ORCID.
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Law and Policy | Fundamental Rights | Responsible AI | Media Law
Anna has a background as a technological anthropologist and during her master’s degree in Denmark she became interested in the use and design of AI in the media sector – and particularly how qualitative decisions around AI are made during the processes of designing AI systems for media and the implications of these decisions. She explores these questions via different ethnographic projects, and have, among other, conducted fieldwork in the Media Museum in Amsterdam that uses AI in its exhibition and during the JournalismAI Academy for Small Newsrooms – a training programme for small newsrooms around the world on how to implement AI.
Before joining the University of Amsterdam, Anna completed her master’s degree in Techno-Anthropology at Aalborg University in Copenhagen and worked as a research assistant in the DataPublics project at Roskilde university. Previous to this Anna also studied journalism and worked as a press consultant in Denmark.
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Responsible AI | Critical AI Studies | STS | AI and News | Interdisciplinary
In her current role at the Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision, Rasa leads the development of international research and innovation partnerships. Her portfolio of projects spans from the use of digital technologies in heritage organisation to the development of novel business models & policies for cultural and creative industries. She takes an inquisitive and critical approach to the potentials and harms of AI on society. Rasa’s passion lies in forging cross-sectoral collaborations and bringing cultural heritage to new arenas. Her background is in Archival and Information Studies and Art History.
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Audiovisual archives | Responsible AI | Humanities | Interdisciplinarity
