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Harvard Hires Lockdown Queen
Former New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern

Harvard University has hired former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern as its first Knight Tech Governance Leadership Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. The lockdown queen’s fellowship is set to begin this fall.

The Ivy League university said it is “thrilled” to announce Ardern — who served as Prime Minister of New Zealand from 2017 to 2023, and is widely known for being a radical leftist and strict authoritarian during the Chinese coronavirus pandemic — as one of its new hires.

“Ardern is known globally as a dedicated and effective leader in pursuing greater online platform accountability and content moderation standards,” the school said in its announcement on Tuesday.

Ardern added that she is “delighted” to be formally working with the Berkman Klein Center.
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Harvard said Ardern will work closely with Berkman Klein Center leadership “to explore emerging challenges of governance to protect against algorithmic harms during a critical moment of the explosive proliferation of generative AI tools.”

The Berkman Klein Center also said it is “deeply impressed” with how Ardern handled the Chinese virus in New Zealand while she was prime minister.

I guess Harvard is screaming a loud bye-bye to freedom of speech in the US like never before.

Michael Schumacher family to take legal action over fake AI interview

Michael Schumacher's family plans to take legal action against a German magazine that ran an AI-generated interview with the Formula One legend.

German outlet Die Aktuelle ran a front cover spread promising an exclusive interview with Schumacher, who has not been seen in public since suffering a serious brain injury in a December 2013 skiing accident.

The magazine claimed it had the first interview with the seven-time F1 champion, promising "No meagre, nebulous half-sentences from friends. But answers from him! By Michael Schumacher, 54!"

Only after the 'interview' with Schumacher in its magazine is it revealed the article has been generated by an AI chatbot.

A Schumacher family spokesperson confirmed to ESPN that legal action will be taken.

Since the skiing accident, the family has gone to great lengths to protect the privacy of Michael, and his medical condition is unknown.

He is believed to be at the family's home in Switzerland.

Die Aktuelle has a history with the Schumachers.

In 2014, the magazine posted a picture of Michael and wife Corinna on the front cover, with the headline "Awake", only for the piece in question to have been about people who have awoken from comas in the past.

The magazine also won a legal case against the Schumachers the next year after a front cover saying "a new love" had entered Corinna's life, only for the article to be about the couple's daughter, Gina.

Corinna Schumacher has spoken about her husband's condition only at the end of a Netflix documentary about his F1 career, titled "Schumacher."

It doesn't really matter if it was written by some wacko AI or human being, it's quite disrespectful.