@IngoBoltz
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I love to explore new technology and apply it to help address social and environmental issues. Working on electronic voting and biometric voter registration systems, as well as GenAI in political misinformation.
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Content Credentialed Media in Election Observation Missions – First Lessons Learned — The Electoral Integrity Project EIP
Editor’s Note: The analysis presented in this article is based on the author’s experience supporting The Carter Center’s election mission in Venezuela. The views and observations expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official stance of The Carter Center. C
www.electoralintegrityproject.com
My recent write-up on Content Credentialed Media in Election Observation Missions: First Lessons Learned from the field! Thanks to The Carter Center for supporting the pilot project and to The Electoral Integrity Project for the opportunity to publish!
www.electoralintegri...
www.electoralintegri...
Interesting look at which people are forecasting which future impacts of AI. The impact of incentive structures seem clear? Frontier lab people boast, "super forecasters" are more cautious because erring costs; everybody in the middle follows the hype.
Introducing LEAP: The Longitudinal Expert AI Panel
Every month, we ask top computer scientists, economists, industry leaders, policy experts and superforecasters for their AI predictions. Here’s what we learned from the first three months of forecasts
forecastingresearch.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Interesting look at which people are forecasting which future impacts of AI. The impact of incentive structures seem clear? Frontier lab people boast, "super forecasters" are more cautious because erring costs; everybody in the middle follows the hype.
Slop is going viral... A sign of the future to come? Maybe Zuckerberg really is on to a trend and those billion dollar datacenters are a great investment after all as they'll enable our social media to be flooded with this stuff. And we'll happily eat it.
TikTok Users Crushed After Finding Out Viral Retirement Home Residents Dressed Up for Halloween Are Actually AI
The popular account @basincreekretirement has fooled millions with its wholesome — and completely fictional — retirement home videos
www.yahoo.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Slop is going viral... A sign of the future to come? Maybe Zuckerberg really is on to a trend and those billion dollar datacenters are a great investment after all as they'll enable our social media to be flooded with this stuff. And we'll happily eat it.
The always excellent Michael Meyer-Resende on why the DSA's rules for fair discourse on social media platforms must be defended. Engagement-maxing algos must not out-shout moderate voices with harmful ones. Freedom of speech is not freedom of reach.
Kulturkampf statt Meinungsfreiheit | Internationale Politik
Zensurvorwürfe, Drohungen, Unwahrheiten: Die US-Regierung führt eine Kampagne gegen Europas digitale Regulierung. Sie darf damit nicht durchkommen.
internationalepolitik.de
November 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
The always excellent Michael Meyer-Resende on why the DSA's rules for fair discourse on social media platforms must be defended. Engagement-maxing algos must not out-shout moderate voices with harmful ones. Freedom of speech is not freedom of reach.
Brutal. Also, shame on MIT.
MIT releases, then quietly removes, nonsense AI cybersecurity paper
MIT releases, then quietly removes, nonsense AI cybersecurity paper
MIT releases, then quietly removes, nonsense AI cybersecurity paper
There’s a remarkable paper from MIT’s Sloan School of Management, co-written with the security vendor Safe Security: “Rethinking the Cybersecurity Arms Race: When 80% of Ransomware Attacks are AI-D…
pivot-to-ai.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Brutal. Also, shame on MIT.
MIT releases, then quietly removes, nonsense AI cybersecurity paper
MIT releases, then quietly removes, nonsense AI cybersecurity paper
The concern over Grokipedia seems overdone; I don't see the market for Musk's vanity project. If I want to know what Grok "thinks" on a subject, I'll ask it directly. That's faster and more convenient. If I want diverse human messiness there's Wikipedia.
With Grokipedia, Top-Down Control of Knowledge Is New Again | TechPolicy.Press
Ryan McGrady asks, who is Grokipedia for, other than its owner?
www.techpolicy.press
November 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The concern over Grokipedia seems overdone; I don't see the market for Musk's vanity project. If I want to know what Grok "thinks" on a subject, I'll ask it directly. That's faster and more convenient. If I want diverse human messiness there's Wikipedia.
Are you a young AI professional and interested in facilitating a workshop in Morocco early December?
Cool opportunity! Maybe just right for one of you? :-)
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Call for a Young AI/Digital Expert – UNDP-UN Global Women’s Leadership… | Ingo Boltz
Cool opportunity! Maybe just right for one of you? :-)
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Call for a Young AI/Digital Expert – UNDP-UN Global Women’s Leadership Academy (Morocco, Dec 2025)
We’re urgently seeking a young AI expert to co-facilitate a session on Intergenerational Leadership in the Digital Era at the upcoming UNDP–UN Global Women’s Leadership Academy, taking place 2–5 December 2025 in Marrakech, Morocco.
The selected expert will work alongside a lead facilitator to deliver an interactive training for 60+ women leaders from over 40 countries, including parliamentarians, electoral commissioners, judges, civil society and media leaders. The session explores how women across generations can collaborate and lead ethically, inclusively, and confidently in an AI-driven world.
We’re looking for someone who is:
✅ Early- to mid-career in AI, digital transformation, tech policy
✅ Passionate about leadership, ethics, and inclusion in the digital age
✅ Skilled in facilitation, storytelling, or applied tech for governance
✅ Available to travel to Marrakech (30 November – 7 Dec 2025 inclusive travel days)
The Global Women’s Leadership Academy is a UNDP flagship initiative co-led with UNDPPA-EAD and supported by Sida, Spain, and Canada. It equips women leaders to lead ethically, digitally, and collaboratively through immersive sessions on transformational, intergenerational, and adaptive leadership, AI readiness, and strategic communication.
Please email najia.hashemee@undp.org with a short bio and link to profile.
www.linkedin.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Are you a young AI professional and interested in facilitating a workshop in Morocco early December?
If most of LLM adoption outside coding is in areas where "good enough" is profitable, and model optimization gives us "good enough" models small enough to run basically for free on edge devices like smartphones, what will happen to the trillion dollar datacenters being built now?
November 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
If most of LLM adoption outside coding is in areas where "good enough" is profitable, and model optimization gives us "good enough" models small enough to run basically for free on edge devices like smartphones, what will happen to the trillion dollar datacenters being built now?
All criticism aside, the fact that I can give GPT5 this screenshot uncommented and it will solve the question for me is pretty cool.
November 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
All criticism aside, the fact that I can give GPT5 this screenshot uncommented and it will solve the question for me is pretty cool.
So they DID ask for government bailouts! OpenAI's CFO was not misexpressing herself, she was spilling the beans. From people who publicly gloat about the epic job destruction their products will cause, this feels a bit... controversial? LOL
Sam Altman’s pants are totally on fire
Even for him, his latest whopper is something
garymarcus.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:48 AM
So they DID ask for government bailouts! OpenAI's CFO was not misexpressing herself, she was spilling the beans. From people who publicly gloat about the epic job destruction their products will cause, this feels a bit... controversial? LOL
A word from Amazon employees on AI....
AI Open Letter — AECJ
AI Open Letter — AECJ
AI Open Letter — AECJ
Sign our open letter below to tell Amazon leadership that we need a more
responsible rollout of AI. Every single signature makes our message
stronger.
www.amazonclimatejustice.org
November 8, 2025 at 6:37 AM
A word from Amazon employees on AI....
AI Open Letter — AECJ
AI Open Letter — AECJ
This. I mean, really? The US taxpayer will be paying if the bubble pops? OpenAI's CFO has since tried rowing back with some diffuse word salad, but it was very clear when she first said it.
OpenAI probably can’t make ends meet. That’s where you come in.
OpenAI probably can’t make ends meet. That’s where you come in.
OpenAI probably can’t make ends meet. That’s where you come in.
If you thought the 2008 bank bailout was bad, wait til you see the 2026 AI bailout
garymarcus.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
This. I mean, really? The US taxpayer will be paying if the bubble pops? OpenAI's CFO has since tried rowing back with some diffuse word salad, but it was very clear when she first said it.
OpenAI probably can’t make ends meet. That’s where you come in.
OpenAI probably can’t make ends meet. That’s where you come in.
Considering that an increasing number of LLM users rely on them for news, this is pretty concerning. I haven't but will play a bit with my models to see if I can catch them slipping up. Better now than after I've gotten used to the convenience. :-P
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Considering that an increasing number of LLM users rely on them for news, this is pretty concerning. I haven't but will play a bit with my models to see if I can catch them slipping up. Better now than after I've gotten used to the convenience. :-P
Worth the hour of your time - Cory Doctorow knows what he's talking about and his suggestions for action (rather than woe) are refreshing.
How workers can deshittify the world with Cory Doctorow
How workers can deshittify the world with Cory Doctorow
How workers can deshittify the world with Cory Doctorow
A recording from Cory Doctorow and Brian Merchant's live video
substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Worth the hour of your time - Cory Doctorow knows what he's talking about and his suggestions for action (rather than woe) are refreshing.
How workers can deshittify the world with Cory Doctorow
How workers can deshittify the world with Cory Doctorow
To my younger friends and colleagues - is this really how it feels for you?
Sacrificing the Present for An Anticipated Memory
Sacrificing the Present for An Anticipated Memory
Sacrificing the Present for An Anticipated Memory
On doing everything in the name of content
scantron.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:23 AM
To my younger friends and colleagues - is this really how it feels for you?
Sacrificing the Present for An Anticipated Memory
Sacrificing the Present for An Anticipated Memory
My Apple account is European so I don't have access to Sora 2 yet, but for those of you in the US, how does the app verify that it's really "your own likeness" that you allow the app to use?
A.I. Is Making Death Threats Way More Realistic
A.I. Is Making Death Threats Way More Realistic
A.I. Is Making Death Threats Way More Realistic
Online harassers are generating images and sounds that simulate their victims in violent situations.
www.nytimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
My Apple account is European so I don't have access to Sora 2 yet, but for those of you in the US, how does the app verify that it's really "your own likeness" that you allow the app to use?
A.I. Is Making Death Threats Way More Realistic
A.I. Is Making Death Threats Way More Realistic
I feel you, Alberto!
Wherever I Go ChatGPT Follows Me
Wherever I Go ChatGPT Follows Me
Wherever I Go ChatGPT Follows Me
The internet is not dead, we’re just lynching it
www.thealgorithmicbridge.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I feel you, Alberto!
Wherever I Go ChatGPT Follows Me
Wherever I Go ChatGPT Follows Me
Reposted by @IngoBoltz
Paris shows what happens when cities put people before cars: cleaner air, greener streets, and healthier lives. The data (and the air) speak for themselves! 🌱🚶♀️🚴
“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.”
Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life.
Common sense.
Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life.
Common sense.
Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.
Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Paris shows what happens when cities put people before cars: cleaner air, greener streets, and healthier lives. The data (and the air) speak for themselves! 🌱🚶♀️🚴
I had missed Opera's AI browser, but honestly, it's flabbergasting to see how tech leaders seem to have no better idea than to copy what their peers do. Multi-million dollar salaries, for that?
Opera’s Neon shows just how confusing AI browsers still are
Opera’s Neon shows just how confusing AI browsers still are
Opera’s Neon shows just how confusing AI browsers still are
Picture Neon like three AI agents dressed up in a trenchcoat.
www.theverge.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:32 AM
I had missed Opera's AI browser, but honestly, it's flabbergasting to see how tech leaders seem to have no better idea than to copy what their peers do. Multi-million dollar salaries, for that?
Opera’s Neon shows just how confusing AI browsers still are
Opera’s Neon shows just how confusing AI browsers still are
Yeah, thanks, Meta.
October 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Yeah, thanks, Meta.
Feels about right... 🤣
AI Productivity and Workslop cartoon - Marketoonist | Tom Fishburne
GenAI prompts are getting pushier. From productivity apps to search to social media, users have to navigate a constant array of pop-ups, tooltips, and moving icons pushing GenAI features for just about every task. And yet the result is not automatically better output or higher productivity. BetterUp Labs and Stanford Social Media Lab recently published
marketoonist.com
October 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Feels about right... 🤣
And, if you DO decide to play with OpenAI's Atlas Browser, be very careful where you go online. Not just because of the privacy risk, but also the security risk. Fun example of prompt-injecting Atlas with something it reads on a web page:
x.com/wunderwuzzi23/...
x.com/wunderwuzzi23/...
October 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM
And, if you DO decide to play with OpenAI's Atlas Browser, be very careful where you go online. Not just because of the privacy risk, but also the security risk. Fun example of prompt-injecting Atlas with something it reads on a web page:
x.com/wunderwuzzi23/...
x.com/wunderwuzzi23/...
Very well said. Short and to the point and worth every one of the 5 minutes it will take you to read it.
The Majority AI View - Anil Dash
The Majority AI View - Anil Dash
The Majority AI View - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
www.anildash.com
October 25, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Very well said. Short and to the point and worth every one of the 5 minutes it will take you to read it.
The Majority AI View - Anil Dash
The Majority AI View - Anil Dash
Haven't tried Atlas myself yet (got no Mac handy) but if what Anil reports here is correct, it is the most brazen attempt yet by OpenAI to "dark pattern" its way into your most intimate personal data! If you do install this... in fact, just don't.
ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
www.anildash.com
October 25, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Haven't tried Atlas myself yet (got no Mac handy) but if what Anil reports here is correct, it is the most brazen attempt yet by OpenAI to "dark pattern" its way into your most intimate personal data! If you do install this... in fact, just don't.
Useful tips to help you spot videos made with Sora2. Usual locations of Sora watermarks and artifacts to spot if they have been removed, in-video text errors, and features that betray social media accounts that post fakes for engagement.
OpenAI’s Sora Makes Hoax Videos. Here’s How to Spot Them
Tips and tricks to identify AI-generated videos, including those produced by OpenAI’s Sora 2 text-to-video model
www.newsguardrealitycheck.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Useful tips to help you spot videos made with Sora2. Usual locations of Sora watermarks and artifacts to spot if they have been removed, in-video text errors, and features that betray social media accounts that post fakes for engagement.
If you read Simon Willison - not a hype slinger - coding agents are very useful today, and will keep revolutionizing software development. And then you read Mike Judge, and they are bullshit. I wish I was a better coder, to find my own results here!
Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up
78% of developers claim AI makes them more productive. 14% say it's a 10x improvement. So where's the flood of new software? Turns out those productivity claims are bullshit.
mikelovesrobots.substack.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
If you read Simon Willison - not a hype slinger - coding agents are very useful today, and will keep revolutionizing software development. And then you read Mike Judge, and they are bullshit. I wish I was a better coder, to find my own results here!