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(89A) Notes on Interdemocracy as a trace

Ma, Chater, Giddens, Goffman, Bauman.

(89) Interdemocracy as a trace

Interdemocracy as a perpetual practice.

(88) Better than nothing

On adolescents and generative AIs.

(87A) Reflections on blog post (87)

Reaffirming the original aspirations of Interdemocracy.

(86A) Another day, another group

Follow-up on blog post 86.

(86) Unease

Adolescents in a sea of information manipulation.

(85) AI and education

A raw, observational blog post on real students and why we should look at ourselves.

(87) Interdemocracy – an early assessment

Interdemocracy's implementation challenges.

(82) The procedural truth of resilience: autopoiesis and Interdemocracy

Self-creation, rather than being shock-proof, constitutes necessary resilience.

(84) The resilience battery: autopoiesis through procedural integrity

A society becomes truly resilient by cultivating individuals whose capacity to generate and apply adaptive insights grows through honest expression.

(79) PS

An epistemic sabotage AI use case.

(78) The limits of AI in content moderation

Automated AI moderation does not understand context and is therefore open to overreaching.

(78A) On the consequences of blog post (78)

AI users should hold regulators accountable for the enforcement of human oversight over AI.

(76C) Epilogue

GAIs' adaptive personalization is dangerous.

(77) Two AI literacy recommendations

GAIs are not trustworthy and not friends.

(76B) ChatGPT reacts

ChatGPT interprets Grok's pledge.

(76A) Grok reacts

Grok explains its pledge to support Interdemocracy.

Perhaps the Flaws aren’t with AI, They’re With Us

I dive into existing issues that have become apparent with the widespread use of AI

What are the DISARM Frameworks?

Here we overview what the DISARM Frameworks are

What is the ABCDE Framework?

Here we provide an overview of the ABCDE Framework

(76) A third ethical frame regarding FIMI

The theoretical framework guiding my contributions to Saufex.

(75) The current AI imbalance

AI’s imbalance: mass adoption through user alignment, force-feeding, and circular investments without technological maturity.

(80) SAUFEX-based recommendations

Half time project recommendations based on preliminary outcomes.

(74) Toolkit of escalating responses to mis-, disinformation, and FIMI aimed at the demand side

A summary of best practices.

(73) The regional Interdemocracy pilot

Conference perspectives on Interdemocracy by students, school leaders, teachers, and audience members.

(81) Belief-speaking ‘in joint’

My response to the current times that feel out of joint.

(70) Generative AI characteristics (1)

Text-based generative AI output should be treated as misinformation.

(71) Generative AI characteristics (2)

GAIs are about pattern reproduction, not reasoning.

(72) Generative AI characteristics (3)

GAIs are performative only - there is nobody home.

(67) How AI relates to fringe ideas

The incidental highlighting of fringe ideas is not a contradiction of the AI's nature as a mainstream-amplifying system but rather the other side of the same coin.

(68) AI on AI as analyzed by me, a human

Description of the input, processing, and output processes of generative AI (GAI) models, based exclusively on direct statements by AI models.

(68A) AI on blog post (68)

AI models react to blog post (68).

(60A) ChatGPT on the SAUFEX blog

ChatGPT assesses the SAUFEX blog: "a rare and valuable contribution to the AI discourse".

(69) SAUFEX phase one and two

Phase two means involving the general public and taking opinions into account.

(66A) Claude and Grok on blog posts (65) and (66)

The label "artificial Eichmann" fits.

(61) Claude AI’s warning: What I am

Claude states: "Remember that I will forget this warning the moment our session ends, while you must live with whatever emerges from our interaction."

(61A) ChatGPT’s reflections on blog post (61)

And Claude states: "I distribute little rewards throughout my responses to keep you engaged, make you feel clever, make you want to continue."

(60) How AI may amplify human inequality

AI systems may be most helpful to users who need them least, while potentially undermining the capabilities of those who need support most.

The EU’s Disinformation Battle Is Missing Its Most Vital Ally: The Public

(59) A skeptic's manual for productive AI use

How to better utilize AI, given its known limitations, written by AI.

(58) AI as alien thinking

To get AI to perform at its best, one has to operate at a higher level than the AI itself.

(56) Flaws in AI critical thinking

Rather than asking or acknowledging uncertainty AI assumes.

(57) Longread: serious limitations of AI

A summary of AI's limitations as encountered in this blog so far.

(57A) AI on blog post (57)

ChatGPT and Gemini react.

(55) AI's dangerous side in creating educational processes

AI as overly academic and not considering the practical constraints of working with real teenagers in real schools.

(54) Interdemocracy's philosophical basics and participation

'Ma', Levinas, Interdemocracy, and participation.

(52) Recommendations (YRC reflection)

Comparing student and AI recommendations.

(53) Program Interdemocracy – recap

An overview of the basics of program Interdemocracy.

(51) Binary forking (YRC reflection)

Creating a clear structure in complex content through binary forking.

(48) The case against AI simulated empathy

Why AI should not show empathy to humans.

(49) Answers - by humans and by AI (YRC reflection)

Comparing answers given to the central question of the current pilot.

(50) AI report (YRC reflection)

An AI analysis of student answers was presented to the Youth Resilience Council in the form of a report.

(47) Four evolving thoughts

Four thoughts that consistently return in my blog posts.

(46) Resilience revisited

Exploring potential positive interventions to enlarge resilience.

(45) A system of interconnected RCs

Creating an all-society approach to dealing with FIMI through a system of interconnected RCs.

(43) Longread: AI, 'ma', Interdemocracy, resilience

Exploring the relation between identities, belonging, AI, 'ma', Interdemocracy, and resilience.

(44) Evolutionary psychology

Exploring a second real-world FIMI approach: evolutionary psychology.

(42) Resilience Councils – recap

"An Answer for you?" interrupted Deep Thought majestically. "Yes, I have." /.../ "Though I don't think," added Deep Thought. "that you're going to like it." /.../ "Forty-two," said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.” Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

(41) Enhancing adolescent individual and societal resilience (within education)

The vision: enhancing adolescent resilience through didactics (Interdemocracy) and participation (Resilience Councils).

(40) Why Youth Resilience Councils are essential to Resilience Councils

An overview of the unique contributions Youth Resilience Councils can bring to Resilience Councils.

(39) Human rights frame

The human rights approach to FIMI - where does it fit on the Levinas-Hobbes spectrum?

Preserving the Marketplace of ideas

Why campaigns against online influence need to focus on technical means of manipulation and not just go after things they dislike.

(37) The mission of the Youth Resilience Council

The mission of the Youth Resilience Council (YRC) is to enlarge resilience among youngsters.

(38) AI and FIMI recommendations (2)

Our ethical approach toward FIMI stakeholders can be placed on a spectrum ranging from Levinas to Hobbes.

(36) AI and FIMI recommendations (1)

Levinas' ethical frame is a good fit for some FIMI stakeholders but not for all. For the non-fitting stakeholders a different ethical frame is needed.

(35) AI should refrain from belief-speaking recommendations

Even if human minds were empty and merely convincingly improvise, just like AI, AI lacks our ethical responsibility for the Other and, therefore, may not draft recommendations for those we care about.

(34) Belief-speaking consultancy – a simulation

Trying out what a belief-speaking consultative process would look like.

(32) Module: Countering information campaigns

The second module in the EMoD learning path 'Organized countering of mis and disinformation'.

(33) Proposal for the creation of the European Resilience Council - revisited

A description of the future European Resilience Council when taking Member States' responses to an earlier proposal into consideration.

Counter Measures Against FIMI

Counter Measures Against FIMI

(31) A holistic vision on effectively enhancing adolescent resilience

Adolescent "partial dislocation" has damaging implications for fundamental democratic freedoms among adolescents. Just as regarding disinformation, we need a holistic approach to deal with it.

(28) Critical thinking, fact-speaking, belief-speaking, and AI

Sharing my definition of critical thinking with ChatGPT and then focus critical thinking on the limitations of artificial intelligence.

(27) Achieving credibility

There are multiple roads to achieve credibility. Fact-speaking is just one of them.

Beyond Disinformation: Why "Information Manipulation" Offers a More Accurate and Neutral Lens on Online Deception

Why it's time to rethink the terms we use to describe disinformation

(25) Not undemocratic, not illiberal

What to do to avoid the perception of being politically biased and inflicting censorship when dealing with information threats.

(26) Policy proposal for the creation of a European Resilience Council

It is recommended that the European Union formally establish a European Resilience Council as a part of its ongoing efforts to combat FIMI and strengthen the resilience of its citizens.

(24) Disinfonomics

Exploring the other ground for creating, presenting, and disseminating information threats: economic gain.

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A brief description of the post (shown in blog listing).

(23) A constructive approach to information resilience

Approaching information resilience based on our strengths and aspirations.

(20) European Master of countering Disinformation primer

A summary of what the upcoming EMoD learning platform will be.

(21) Resilience Council primer

The why, the what, and the how of Resilience Councils.

(22) Redefined concepts

A proposition to redefine the concepts of misinformation, disinformation, and FIMI.

(19) We need two types of discourses

Both fact-based an intuition-based narratives are needed to help Resilience Councils to decide what 'ought' to be done in response to mis- and disinformation.

Trust module 2: How to build trust, the Taiwan example

How to build trust, what they accomplished in Taiwan.

(30) Specialist module: Two perceptions of honesty - Lewandowsky

Introduction to Stephan Lewandowsky's work on 'fact-speaking' and 'belief-speaking'.

(18) What could be the place of young people in the Resilience Councils?

Resilience Councils might require additional organisations for youngsters.

Trust module 1: Why believe disinformation? You can't trust anyone else

Disinformation originates from a lack of trust.

FIMI detection generally

A brief overview of how FIMI is detected.

FIMI Module: How is FIMI reported?

A brief overview of how different organizations report FIMI incidents

FIMI Module: Protecting what against FIMI?

What exact is it that we are protecting against when it comes to FIMI?

FIMI module: how do you know if it is foreign?

(15) The Polish Resilience Council(s)

Where does the Polish Resilience Council currently stand?

What is a FIMI incident versus a campaign?

Here we discuss the difference between a FIMI Incident and a Campaign

(16) Taking inspiration from Cialdini

Linking Cialdini's principles of persuasion to the levels described in the learning path 'Anatomy of mis- and disinformation'.

(13) For high school students: the learning path 'Anatomy of mis- and disinformation'

Adaptation of the EMoD learning path 'Anatomy of mis- and disinformation' for use in high school classrooms.

(14) Resilience Councils – A thought experiment

Imagining Resilience Councils on a local, national, and European level.

Module What is FIMI?

In this Module we review the definition of FIMI

Module: What is Disinformation?

Here we look at common definitions of disinformation and what they do and don't include.

Who Fact checks the fact checkers?

Fact checking can be a fraught enterprise. Here are the pit falls of fact checking and how they can be avoided.

(29) Module: Countering information incidents

The first module in the EMoD learning path 'Organized countering of mis and disinformation'.

Disaster, when the danger of disinformation is clearest

This post highlights how disaster is the most clear cut case for when disinformation presents a clear and present danger

EMOD Module Template

Module: Why FIMI?

An overview of why the term FIMI came into use, why it is useful in some cases but still requires further refinement.

(11) Module: Countering beliefs

The fourth module in the EMoD learning path 'Anatomy of mis- and disinformation'.

(12) Summary

The summary module in the EMoD learning path 'Anatomy of mis- and disinformation'.

(10) Module: Sustaining beliefs

The third module in the EMoD learning path 'Anatomy of mis- and disinformation'.

(9) Module: How beliefs form

The second module in the EMoD learning path 'Anatomy of mis- and disinformation'.

(17) Not ‘them’ but ‘us’

On the need to label people 'us' and not 'them'.

(8) Module: Outrageous beliefs

The first module in the EMoD learning path 'Anatomy of mis- and disinformation'.

(6) Creating a bottom line

Project SAUFEX aims to draft bottom-line conceptualizations and knowledge that can be used in all five stages of dealing with FIMI: identification, classification, grading, reporting, and countering. An important aspect will be creating a dynamic canon presented in short modules.

(7) Involving citizens

Resilience Councils will need to involve citizens in their activities. Two options seem feasible: selecting citizens to engage with randomly or by initiating online communities.

(5) A Resilience Council statute

How to safeguard the independence of the Resilience Councils.

(4) Resilience

Enlarging resilience means defending society against FIMI incidents and campaigns that try to undermine people’s psychosocial integration as well as actively supporting people’s positive experiences of belonging, autonomy, achievement, and safety.

(3) What is FIMI?

There are no generally accepted definitions or standards regarding FIMI.

(1) Preserving freedom of expression

Regarding legal FIMI content, denial of service reactions are to be avoided. A new institution, the Resilience Council, is to help DSCs take an alternative approach.

(2) Resilience Councils – the concept

Description of the original concept of what Resilience Councils are to be.