The Converted Golf Club That Helps Data Centers Get on a Greener Course
Lauren Bridges, DTD Lab faculty co-lead, was interviewed by The Wall Street Journal about the environmental concerns sparked by the proliferation of data centers in Northern Virginia.
Q&A: Is a new AI social media platform the start of a robotic uprising?
Mona Sloane, DTD Lab faculty co-lead, sat down with UVA Today to discuss a new AI social media platform and what we might be missing in the conversation over AI agents.
Predicted: How AI Is Restructuring Social Life
The age of AI is not what you think. Rather than ushering in a fourth Industrial Revolution, AI has become a crucial social infrastructure of everyday life. It’s embedded in the tools, platforms, and systems that organize our most intimate lives and our interactions with the most fundamental institutions of society, from government agencies to banks and schools. In these linkages are embedded assumptions about who we are, what we can do, and where we belong.
Artificial intelligence and the collapse of what seems real
David Nemer, DTD Lab faculty co-lead, participated in an interview on the podcast O Assunto do Paortal g1, where he discussed the proliferation of hyper-realistic videos that are being produced with state-of-the-art tools.
The Boundaries of Evidence-based Policymaking for Night-time Governance
Jess Reia, DTD Lab faculty co-lead, has a new paper out in which they examine the challenges posed by big data and AI-generated content to decision-making processes.
Understand the law signed by Lula that regulates the activity of digital influencers
Yasmin Curzi, DTD Lab postdoctoral research fellow, speaks about the new law's failure to provide mechanisms to contain the spread of misinformation.
What will Brazil do to stop Grok?
Yasmin Curzi, DTD Lab postdoctoral research fellow, spoke with Fast Company Brazil about the creation and circulation of sexual deepfakes and child abuse from Grok.
Companies profit from the digital sexualization of women and children
Yasmin Curzi, DTD Lab postdoctoral research fellow, wrote about the case of Grok, a tool developed by xAI, which made it possible to generate thousands of images with sexualization of women and children without any control.
AI and the rise of intelligent sensing
Mona Sloane, DTD Lab faculty co-lead spoke with Nature Sensors about privacy and sensing and how AI could help with local data processing to address privacy much earlier in the pipeline.
UVA researchers examine AI’s impact on democracy
University of Virginia researchers examined how artificial intelligence is reshaping democracy during a discussion Friday, January 9, focusing on the technology’s influence on what people see, share and believe online.
