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Categories: humanities and social sciences

  • Generative AI has seven distinct roles in combating misinformation

    Generative AI can help fight misinformation but can also worsen it by creating convincing, hard‑to‑detect manipulations that spread quickly. A new study identifies seven roles AI can play in the information environment and examines their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and risks.

  • How Topelius shaped the Finnish identity

    The novel "The Surgeon’s Stories" by Zacharias Topelius has had a significant influence on the way people in Finland, and in Sweden, have come to understand their history. In the novel, the Lutheran faith has a key role in the depiction of Finland as an emerging nation. Lutheranism provides a model for the organization of society, but also dictates which religious minorities are excluded.

    Erika Boije is holding her thesis and looks in to the camera.