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Talking synthetic data on the KreativEU podcast

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10 Nov 2026
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In May I sat down with Helena Strömstedt at Södertörn University to record an episode of Kreativ Talks, the KreativEU podcast on science, heritage and technology. It is now out, the third episode in the series, on KreativEU’s channels and on YouTube.

The episode is billed as AI, heritage and culture, but my part is about synthetic data: data made by AI models to stand in for real data. It is a topic I keep coming back to, in the research group on synthetic data and in my writing. What happens to what we count as real when the data is made?

KreativEU is an alliance of eleven European universities working on cultural heritage. Thanks to Helena for the conversation, and to Moa Svan for the tech support!

Title card: Kreativ Talks, the Science, Heritage & Technology KreativEU Podcast. AI, Heritage and Culture, Francis Lee

Watch the episode on YouTube.

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18 Sep 2026

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.