Interview with Nikos Sarris, SOMA Project Coordinator, Head of ATC Innovation Lab.     Can you explain how SOMA, ATC, TruthNest and Truly Media work and how they fit together?   Nikos Sarris: At ATC, we have been working for almost 10 years on ways to help professionals assess the trustworthiness of...

Interview with Holger H. Hoos, Professor of Machine Learning at Universiteit Leiden (NL), on AI education strategy.     What is CLAIRE?   Holger Hoos: CLAIRE is a large network of AI researchers, including the European Space Agency and national governments, namely Belgium, the Czech Republic, Italy and...

AI education strategy, a scientist’s opinion   Interview with Teemu Roos, Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of Helsinki (FI).     How successful is the Elements of AI course?   Teemu Roos: The Elements of AI course has been a huge success, with over 160 000 signups from all over...

Interview with Mattia Peretti, manager of the project ‘Journalism AI’ at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). The project is funded by the Google News Initiative and started in April 2019.     What is the aim of the project ‘AI in journalism’?   Mattia Peretti: Our aim is to inform...

Interview with David Graus, AI-researcher and data scientist working for FD Mediagroep in The Netherlands, on developing AI-tools for journalists.     Which AI-tools for journalists are you in your company developing?   David Graus: We are working on two project. One is called SMART Journalism, the other...

Interview with Lisa-Maria Neudert, is a DPhil candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute and Researcher with the Project on Computational Propaganda.     Will you be observing the EP elections? What are the main challenges?   Lisa-Maria Neudert: Yes, we are currently preparing to analyse the EP elections...

Interview with Kajsa Falasca, Senior Lecturer and Assistant Professor at the Department of Media and Communication Science (MKV) at the research centre DEMICOM at Mid University Sweden.     Prior to last year's elections in Sweden, huge numbers of fake news items were posted on Twitter, concerning Islam...

Interview with Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield about Technology & Disinformation.   There is a strong need for data protection laws that can adequately address the challenges of user data being misused and harvested without consent by third-party applications, political parties/politicians,...