The Best of Both Worlds: Mixed Systems with ML and Humans in the Loop to Combat Fake Information

Dealing adequately with misinformation is one of the societal challenges of our times, since misinformation has been proven to be harmful for people, societies, and democracy. Improving Artificial Intelligence algorithms underlying information retrieval and recommendation systems is a path that must be encouraged;however, this is not the only path ahead and, above all, it can be combined with other approaches. In addition to the known limitations of Machine Learning model results, which cannot be guaranteed to be 100% accurate, ethical issues are raised when an algorithm acts as a censor of what information a human being can and cannot access. This paper discusses some recent initiatives during the COVID-19 pandemic to improve the quality of information delivered to users that have two characteristics in common: firstly, they are technically simple, hard coded, and do not involve any AI;secondly, they represent a preliminary step in a broader perspective that goes beyond technical improvements to promote critical thinking among those receiving the information. Although they can be seen as preliminary cases of how to deal with misinformation, they seem to be effective and they point towards more interdisciplinary solutions to the contemporary issue of misinformation, possibly bringing other developments to ethical, Human-Centered AI. © 2022, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Listening in pandemic times: participatory processes in museums on Sao Paulo State Immigration Museum experience

In this essay, we shed light on the processes of participation and listening in museological praxis in a pandemic context, based on a report of the Immigration Museum of Sao Paulo State's project "Human Mobility and Coronavirus", an initiative that aims to understand the impacts of the pandemic on human mobility. We seek to interpret this experience in view of the literature that has been consolidated in museology and anthropology on the subject of "participation", arguing that the Immigration Museum, since its formation in 1993, had its own ways of promoting the perspective of action with the public. In the second part, partial results of the project, exposing some interviews carried out in 2020. Given the fact that no one can have any guarantees as to how contemporary mobilities would be reconfigured, we listened, both to researchers and to international migrants. In this text, we present part of materials generated from the dialogue with international migrants residing in Brazil and in the world.