Media Systems
Most discussion about generative AI tools has centered around the challenges and opportunities posed by synthetic content. Now that these agents are taking actions for us, what impacts might ceding that agency have on us and on society?
Our Federal courts may have accidentally turned Section 230 into the tool it was meant to be.
The most important insight might not be anything that happens in the simulated Situation Room but what kept one of the characters from ending up on the wrong side of the "war".
The stories we share can transform us and our communities and our society. But artists must be willing to accept the responsibility that comes with those powers.
As Rishad Tobaccowala says sometimes "the future does not fit in the containers of the past." We need Congress to help us define new containers for information, culture, and community.
Two major Supreme Court cases decided last week show where we need to focus our attention if we hope to create a framework for guiding and regulating our public sphere.
Some will see that declaration as a rubicon of achievement in the arrival of generative AI and be elated. But what might we be giving up?
Fox News's settlement might be getting in the way of an opportunity to get what we need from the Sullivan standard and our defense of the First Amendment in the Dominion lawsuit.
Two cases this week about Section 230 and social media liability for terrorism could affect the next generation of information and media systems and their influence on our public sphere.
What the last decade wrestling with the potential and effects of social media might teach us about how we greet ChatGPT.
Is there a modern equivalent of the 95 Theses? Does it matter? Perhaps we don't need the permission of history to begin.