What exactly is hype around AI, and how can it enable disinformation?
In what ways can it manipulate investors, journalists, politicians, and citizens?
This webinar introduces the concept of hype and helps us decode the disinformation dynamics around AI, often disguised as PR, vision statements, or forecasting, while exploring the implications for its use and regulation.
We will discuss how hype manages to:
📚 Bend the facts
💎 Centralize money and power
🎙️ Silence critique and accelerate everything
🔒 Lock politicians into path dependencies
🤖 Mislead AI users
Join the discussion with Dr. Jascha Bareis of Université de Fribourg!
Speaker: Jascha Bareis, Senior researcher Université de Fribourg. Executive board of Hype Studies.
Jascha Bareis is a Political scientist, Science & Technology Studies and Communication scholar. His research unfolds at the intersection of power, techno futures, civil & military AI. Jascha is trying to make sense of societal phenomena that evolve in these strange late techno-capitalist times.
Moderator: Raquel Miguel Serrano, Senior Researcher, EU DisinfoLab
Raquel Miguel Serrano is a senior researcher at EU DisinfoLab. She has a background in journalism and spent most of her professional career working for the German press agency DPA until 2019, when she shifted her focus to disinformation. Raquel earned a Master’s degree in Cyber Intelligence and joined EU DisinfoLab. She is the author of multiple articles, mainly focused on mis- and disinformation circulating in Spain and Germany, but also on more comprehensive topics such as the impact risk of online disinformation or pre-bunking as a tool to counter information disorders. Recently, she has been working in other areas, such as FIMI or the challenges posed by generative AI.
The opinions expressed are those of the speakers/authors and do not necessarily reflect the position of EU DisinfoLab. This webinar does not represent an endorsement by EU DisinfoLab of any organisation.