I recently joined the Centre for Collective Intelligence Design at Nesta, the UK’s Innovation Foundation. My team studies, designs and builds systems that combine human and machine intelligence to tackle social challenges. Collective intelligence is a highly rich set of disciplines and methods covering nano, micro, meta and global macro…

It has been an extremely challenging year — and I’m incredibly thankful for being healthy and having a job. This is a personal blog post, and I will reflect on some of my learnings, contributions, and recurring thoughts during my second year at the Turing. I broke down what I’ve…

I wrote a few words about AI and climate action for 𝘉𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘩, a new magazine written by and for people who dream of a sustainable and just internet. The first issue is curated by Michelle Thorne, Chris Adams and Laurence Bascle. Branch is kidly supported by EIT Climate KIC, Mozilla…

“We need a dream-world to discover the features of the real world we think we inhabit.” ― Paul Karl Feyerabend, Against Method This is an effort to consolidate my thinking. I will explore different dimensions of large scale programmes for technical and scientific R&D. My quest is driven by general…

Imagine if everyone swallowed a magic substance that deactivates the neurons which give rise to their Ego. How would the world look like? Would we touch the other and feel their perspective immediately? Would we touch their chest and feel our own, as if the two lungs are entangled? Would…

This is a project I took part in during the Digital Methods Summer school at the University of Amsterdam, June 2020 COVID-19 has become the perfect facilitator of conspiracy theories (Quattrociocchi in Ball and Maxmen, Nature). Social media being used now more than ever, online platforms have become the marketplace…

I’m baffled by the reality that’s unfolding in front of my eyes. I feel dizzy, disoriented, confused, drunken with this constant stream of information. Just in the last three days: There is a massive social upheaval in the US, a CNN reporter was arrested live on TV while reporting, Trump…

I used entries from Wikipedia to map the coronavirus “infodemic” which includes false information, international disinformation campaigns, conspiracy theories, commercial scams and propaganda — among other things.