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✈️ Plane hijackings have decreased. 🏭 Has China’s CO2 emissions peaked? 🚀 First crash-free test of Starship. 👀 Few see disinformation online.
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❓ Where is all the AI disinformation?
AI-generated disinformation was supposed to lead to a "tech-driven Armageddon" during this super-election year. Now, hundreds of millions have voted, and I wonder: where is it?
Taiwan had elections already in January and is perhaps the country in the world most exposed to information warfare. What happened there? They managed the situation really well and reached record-low polarization after the election. One of their tactics was to use prebunking. Mental antibodies to resist disinformation.
Pessimists often extrapolate problems until they are huge threats. But forget that we are also really good at solving problems, like in the case of Taiwan.
Mathias Sundin
The Angry Optimist
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🔎 We were supposed to be flooded with AI disinformation... now 800 million have voted, where is it?
We faced a "tech-driven Armageddon" and experts ranked AI disinformation as the second biggest global threat this year. Have you noticed much of it?
🙅♀️ Prebunking - how Taiwan resisted China's information warfare
Showing people in advance what the manipulators will claim gives people mental antibodies to resist disinformation.
💡 Fact-based optimistic news of the week
✈️ Plane hijackings have decreased dramatically
The number of plane hijackings has significantly decreased since the 1980s. The number of fatalities in plane hijackings has also decreased. The last major hijacking occurred during the September 11 attacks in 2001.
🏭 Has China’s CO2 emissions peaked? New stats suggest so
China’s CO2 emissions decreased by 3% in March. Solar and wind covered 90% of the growth in electricity consumption, reducing the share of fossil fuels in electricity production. With the rapid increase in EVs, structural changes are occurring, suggesting that emissions may have peaked in 2023.
🚀 First crash-free test of Starship
Another successful test flight of Starship, and this time both parts of the rocket safely returned to Earth. Starship is not just a new cool rocket; it has the potential to transform humanity.
🦠 AI discovers nearly 1 million new antibiotics - progress in the fight against antibiotic resistance
Researchers used AI to analyze genetic data from tens of thousands of bacteria and other organisms. Nearly one million potential antibiotic compounds were identified, with 79% able to kill at least one microbe. AI has drastically accelerated the process.
👀 New study: Few see disinformation online - and the debate around it lacks support from science
Exposure to false information is concentrated among narrow extremist groups. Algorithms play less of a role than individual choices in exposure to extremist content. Social media has not been shown to be the main cause of polarization.
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