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Many people think #GenerativeAI is a public problem — but what kind of problem, for what kind of public, & how is the problem made?

In a new piece, I trace these questions across (1) charismatic figures, (2) failure indexes, (3) journalistic practices.

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Dropping in to share wonderful new collection of short, provocative, playful, teachable, #OpenAccess essays on sociotechnical change, edited by me & Simogne Hudson, in latest International Journal of Communication.

Intro: ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc…

Collection: ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc… (scroll to 'forum')

Why we need to start seeing AI as a 'public problem' rather than a technical one, via USC Center on Generative AI & Society Co-director Mike Ananny

Mike Ananny Issues in Science and Technology USC Center for AI in Society

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IJoC published 85 papers in January, including a Special Section on Rethinking Artificial Intelligence, guest edited by Seungahn Nah & Jungseock Joo + a Forum on Sociotechnical Change, convened by @Ananny & Simogne Hudson. There's something for everyone! ijoc.org

To grapple with promise and peril of generative AI, #ascj professor Mike Ananny shares in Issues in Science and Technology how 'although generative AI has been framed as a technical problem, recasting it as a public problem offers new avenues for action.' Read more here: issues.org/ai-public-prob…

New short essay in Issues in Science and Technology:

'To Reckon with Generative #AI , Make It a Public Problem'
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Part of collection 'An AI Society', with fantastic essays from too many scholars to list here! issues.org/an-ai-society/

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Dropping in to share wonderful new collection of short, provocative, playful, teachable, #OpenAccess essays on sociotechnical change, edited by me & Simogne Hudson, in latest International Journal of Communication.

Intro: ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc…

Collection: ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc… (scroll to 'forum')

New Knowing Machines podcast I did on Generative AI+News (collaboration w/ Jake Karr):

eclive.engelberg.center/episodes/synth…

We talk what journalistic work is, where diversity is in news infrastructures, tech-driven public experiments, & pragmatic approach to synthetic media “objectivity.”

New Knowing Machines podcast I did on Generative AI+News (collaboration w/ Jake Karr):

eclive.engelberg.center/episodes/synth…

We talk what journalistic work is, where diversity is in news infrastructures, tech-driven public experiments, & pragmatic approach to synthetic media “objectivity.”

Blogger? Journalist? Remotely interested in how ChatGPT may impact your craft? This is one heck of a read from Mike Ananny/Mike Ananny and Jake Karr with Nieman Lab.

'Generative AI poses the biggest threat to press freedom in decades,' write Mike Ananny and Jake Karr. buff.ly/3RBD0ss

'News is not “content,” readers are not “users,” stories are not “syntheses.” A truly free press controls its language from start to finish.'

Excellent piece by Mike Ananny and Jake Karr on Generative AI & journalism:

niemanlab.org/2023/09/press-…

'A truly free press controls its language from start to finish. It knows where its words come from, how to choose and defend them, and the power that comes from using them on the public’s behalf.' buff.ly/3RBD0ss

New piece in Nieman Lab, w/ Jake Karr & growing out of Knowing Machines project:

'Press freedom means controlling the language of AI':
niemanlab.org/2023/09/press-…

'Journalists need to get good, fast, at looking under the hood of GenAI systems & developing the power to shape them.'

But wht does it mean whn algorithms 'fail? Making Mistakes. Constructing Algorithmic Errors to Understand Sociotechnical Power .. Mike Ananny

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