Some of my favorite UMass students have founded an organization called the Responsible Tech Coalition. It’s a group of graduate students who want to talk… Read More »AIxDemocracy: What are the politics of AI?
Science on Screen is a partnership between the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Boston and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to pair classic, cult and current… Read More »Science on Screen: Don’t Look Up
Three days ago, the editor of The Atlantic, a major American news magazine I occasionally write for, revealed that he was inadvertently added to a… Read More »“Post-post-truth”, or how the SignalGate story is forking reality
Jay Rosen and Taylor Owen close out the first day of “Attention: Freedom, Interrupted”, in a live taping of a podcast (Machines Like Us) for… Read More »Jay Rosen and Taylor Owen: Can journalism survive Trump? Can democracy?
(Ongoing coverage of Attention: Freedom, Interrupted at McGill University in Montreal. Liveblog – I will get things wrong – feel free to correct me if… Read More »Focus on the player, not the puck: Finnish approaches to combatting electoral interference
Taylor Owen, one of our hosts at “Attention: Freedom, Interrupted”, offers a brief and powerful talk on the Information ecosystem leading to the 45th Canadian… Read More »Taylor Owen: Canadians now see the US as the most serious disinfo threat