Invited Speakers
Carolina Scarton Senior Lecturer in NLP, University of Sheffield
Generative AI and Disinformation: Recent Advances, Challenges, and Opportunities
Carolina Scarton is a Senior Lecturer in Natural Language Processing at the Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, UK. She is a member of the Natural Language Processing group and part of the GATE team and her research interests include online disinformation analysis, machine translation, text simplification, NLP evaluation, and multilingual and multimodal NLP applications. In 2017, she was awarded a PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Sheffield, funded by the EXPERT project (a Marie Curie ITN network). She also has a MSc and a BSc degree from the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Dr Scarton is the Sheffield PI of two research projects on the area of disinformation analysis (EDMO Ireland, funded by the European Commission and HORIZON EU VIGILANT, funded by Innovate UK) and acts as a CO-I for one project in disinformation analysis (HORIZON EU vera.ai, funded by Innovate UK) and one project in idiomaticity processing (funded EPSRC). She is also the Scientific Coordinator for the VIGILANT project and the secretary for the European Association for Machine Translation.
Felix M. Simon Dieter Schwarz Scholar | Oxford Internet Institute & Balliol College
Putting Things in Perspective: Generative AI, Misinformation, and Threats to Democracy
Felix M. Simon is a communication researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) where he has studied the role of AI in over 35 leading international news organisations since 2019 and has worked widely on various aspects of AI, the news, and the public sphere, with a special focus on shifting power dynamics between the news and the tech sector. He is affiliated with Columbia University’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism, the Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and works as a research assistant at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ). Felix is a former journalist and regularly writes and comments on technology, media, and politics for various international outlets.
Andy Dudfield Head of AI at Full Fact
The impact of AI on Full Fact's fact checking
Andy has led Full Fact’s artificial intelligence team since 2019, developing technology to tackle misinformation at internet scale by serving the needs of fact checkers around the world. Andy was previously the Chief Publishing Officer of the Office for National Statistics and prior to that spent a decade working in product and technology roles at the BBC.
