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  • New Policy Paper: Wired to Beijing? Huawei and ZTE in European Networks

    New Policy Paper: Wired to Beijing? Huawei and ZTE in European Networks

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    Antonia Bulfon and Lena-Sophie Drews published a policy paper at European Governance Lab. It is about how discussions of European digital dependencies often focus on U.S. software, but China’s role in European network infrastructure deserves equal attention. This paper analyzes why the EU has struggled to regulate the risks posed by Huawei and ZTE. Beyond…

  • Lena Drews published a IFSH Brief Analysis: “Europe Is Financing Its Own Digital Dependence”

    Lena Drews published a IFSH Brief Analysis: “Europe Is Financing Its Own Digital Dependence”

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    Europe is investing billions in digital sovereignty (its own clouds, chip manufacturing, AI models), yet foreign providers still dominate. Around €264 billion flows to non-European cloud and software providers every year, so Europe is effectively financing its own dependence. The main bottleneck is demand rather than investment: as long as public bodies and companies choose…

  • Elections in the crosshairs: Mateusz on Russian disinformation for BR24 #Faktenfuchs

    Elections in the crosshairs: Mateusz on Russian disinformation for BR24 #Faktenfuchs

    Mateusz was interviewed by Bayerischer Rundfunk for its fact-checking format #Faktenfuchs. The resulting article, “Wahlen im Visier russischer Desinformation”, examines how Russia tries to manipulate the information space around elections. The topic is/was pressing. In September 2026, Germany held state elections in Saxony-Anhalt, Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The pro-Russian campaign known as “Matryoshka” (an offspring…

  • The perfect politician is a new nightmare: AI and the 2027 elections in Poland

    The perfect politician is a new nightmare: AI and the 2027 elections in Poland

    In hist new OpEd written for Spider’s Web, Mateusz discusses the AI-powered visualizations of politicians and imagines a politician who is always energetic, smiling and attractive to every group of voters. An AI-generated avatar whose features can be boosted. It builds on his “softfakes” research (see it here).

  • How Russia poisons chatbots: LLM grooming explained

    How Russia poisons chatbots: LLM grooming explained

    Large language models (LLMs) learn from the open web, and that reliance should be seen as one of the most important cybersecurity vulnerabilities. No wonder then that malicious actors take them as a target. In the OpEd “Mój chatbot Władimir. Jak Rosjanie zatruwają wielkie modele językowe” (published by the Polish Spider’s Web, co-authored with Rafał…

  • Can a chatbot be your therapist? New article in Ethics and Information Technology

    Can a chatbot be your therapist? New article in Ethics and Information Technology

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    Mateusz, Dr. Paweł Szczęsny, and Dr. Katarzyna Mika-Łabuz published peer-reviewed article titled “Large language models (LLMs) as psychotherapists: an analysis based on psychodynamic psychotherapy theory” in Ethics and Information Technology (Vol. 28). And it has a huge cybersecurity element! Emotional support is one of the most common uses of generative AI. The authors test whether…

  • “Przed Waszą Erą” on tour: author meetings across Poland

    “Przed Waszą Erą” on tour: author meetings across Poland

    After the premiere in May, Mateusz met readers across Poland to talk about Przed Waszą Erą: 15 September – Jan Kruczek Municipal Public Library, Myślenice23 September – Pedagogical Regional Library, Nowy Sącz26 September – Big Book Cafe, Warsaw, as part of the Big Book Festival22 October – Regional and Municipal Public Library, Rzeszów Every single…

  • Where Cybersecurity meets Artificial Intelligence

    Where Cybersecurity meets Artificial Intelligence

    The EU Action Plan on Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence in the spotlight  Introduction  Cybersecurity and artificial intelligence (AI) are often treated as separate policy fields: they have followed different trajectories of development, involve different forms of private-sector participation, and are governed by distinct regulatory frameworks. Yet as the interlinkages between the two fields continue to…

  • Labelling synthetic media: Mateusz’s chapter in the Springer Handbook of AI-based Media Disruption

    Labelling synthetic media: Mateusz’s chapter in the Springer Handbook of AI-based Media Disruption

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    Mateusz wrote the peer-reviewed book chapter titled “Toward Transparency of Synthetic Media: EU Regulatory Perspective and Its Implications” published in the Handbook of AI-based Media Disruption (Springer), edited by Stephan Böhm, Stephen Collins, Alexander Godulla, Sarah Keith and Richard Savery. The chapter analyses the AI Act’s transparency obligations for deepfakes and AI-generated content. These provisions…

  • Mateusz at the Economic Forum in Karpacz

    Mateusz at the Economic Forum in Karpacz

    Mateusz presented his book Przed Waszą Erą at the 35th Economic Forum in Karpacz, one of the largest political and economic conferences in Central and Eastern Europe. The 2026 edition ran under the motto “Architecture of the New Order – Stability in Times of Change” and gathered over 7,000 guests. His session, put the human…

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