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10 Nov 2026
Talking synthetic data on the KreativEU podcastI took part in the third episode of Kreativ Talks, the KreativEU podcast on science, heritage and technology, talking about synthetic data.
2026
- 22 Oct ”Synthetic Data and the Folds of Generative AI,” a talk by Benjamin Jacobsen Today we had the great pleasure of hosting Benjamin Jacobsen (York University) for a talk at the Intersynth Lab. He is the PI of an ERC project on synthetic data that promises to be really interesting, and in his talk he zoomed in on the big AI labs and how they use synthetic data to train models.
- 18 Sep What does AI do to knowledge? 2,400 years ago, Plato worried that writing would give us the appearance of knowledge. Now we have built machines that are fantastically good at exactly that. From my talk at AI och det goda samhället in Stockholm.
- 11 Sep Reflecting on method: how can we show that AI could be otherwise? My concluding commentary for the panel “The matter of methods in researching AI” at EASST 2026 in Kraków. What do our methods reveal and hide—and how do we stay with the political project of showing that things could be otherwise?
- 13 Feb Synthetic data: some questions about the reality of data Does synthetic data have no relationship to the world it imitates? From my talk at The Culture Code at Chalmers: STS has long shown that data are made in practice—so let's ask how synthetic data is made to represent the world.
- 29 Jan Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater: synthetic data and the real Is STS becoming realist again? A comment on Dietmar Offenhuber's argument that synthetic data has no real-world referent—and why synthetic data is better understood as one more step in the chain from world to data.
2025
- 20 Nov Blind spots in pandemic preparedness A new Swedish Research Council project asks which pathogens, people and places the new disease surveillance systems leave out—and what that means for detecting Pathogen X.
- 20 Nov Are we preparing for the wrong pandemic? A new Swedish Research Council project studies how Sweden's emerging pandemic infrastructures change how we know—and what we can know—about pathogens and pandemics.
- 22 Sep A new research group on synthetic data WASP-HS is funding a new research group on AI-generated synthetic data that I lead with Ericka Johnson and Ylva Söderfeldt.
2024
- 28 Nov Who gets to choose? Agency and power in AI assemblages Algorithmic fairness is usually framed as a technical problem with a technical fix. But computational infrastructures redistribute who gets to choose—across code, data, time and place. From my lightning talk at AI4HS 2024.