We are in the midst of a transformation of the digital news ecosystem. The expansion of online social networks, the influence of recommender systems, increased automation, and new generative artificial intelligence tools are rapidly changing the speed and the way misinformation about climate change and sustainability issues moves around the world. Policymakers, researchers and the public need to combine forces to address the dangerous combination of opaque social media algorithms, polarizing social bots, and a new generation of AI-generated content. This synthesis brief is the result of a collaboration between Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University, the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Complexity Science Hub Vienna, and Karolinska Institutet. It has been put together as an independent contribution to the Nobel Prize Summit 2023, Truth, Trust and Hope, Washington D.C., 24th to 26th of May 2023.
翻译:我们正处于数字新闻生态系统的变革之中。在线社交网络的扩张、推荐系统的影响、自动化程度的提升以及新型生成式人工智能工具,正迅速改变气候变化与可持续发展议题虚假信息在全球传播的速度与方式。政策制定者、研究人员和公众需要联合起来,应对不透明的社交媒体算法、两极分化的社交机器人以及新一代AI生成内容构成的危险组合。本简要报告是斯德哥尔摩大学斯德哥尔摩韧性中心、瑞典皇家科学院贝耶尔生态经济学研究所、维也纳复杂性科学中心及卡罗林斯卡学院合作的成果。作为2023年5月24日至26日在华盛顿特区举行的诺贝尔奖峰会“真相、信任与希望”的独立贡献文件汇编而成。