Guest: Sally Lehrman

There is no question that an informed public and a free press are critical requirements for a functioning democracy.  But what if the public has little to no trust in the news media? How can we have a functioning democracy if citizens are wary of what is fact versus fiction? 

Please join us for a conversation with Sally Lehrman, award winning journalist, author and founder of the Trust Project, an international consortium of news organizations working towards greater transparency and accountability in the global news industry. The Trust Project developed Trust Indicators to identify, across news outlets and distribution platforms, the use of appropriate rigors of journalism. These enable the public to identify trustworthy news sources and thus make informed choices.

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Guest: Zoë MacDonald

The increased number of Internet enabled cars affords us luxuries deemed unattainable a few decades ago.  We can now navigate roads in a way to avoid traffic jams, diagnose problems and often fix glitches with a software upgrade, personalize our driving experience and entertainment, and much more.  But they are also massive personal information collection engines, stockpiling information about you from your use of the car, the car’s app as well as 3rd party services such as Sirius XM or Google maps.  And, by the way, most share or sell your data, all with little to no transparency or accountability to the users. 

How did this come about? Are some manufacturers better than others? Should we accept these costs as the unavoidable cost of convenience? And if not, then what recourse do we have? To discuss these and more, join us for a conversation with Zoë MacDonald of the “Privacy Not Included Buyers Guide” of the Mozilla Foundation.

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Guest: Nestor Maslej

Artificial intelligence has made inroads in each of the seven categories of art: architecture, cinema, literature, painting, music sculpture, and theater.  And in doing so, has challenged what it means to create art, as well as stirred debate about the potential consequences for human creators (writers, actors, and artists), and consumers. 

Join us for a discussion about the impact of AI on art with Nestor Maslej, fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation, a technology and policy think tank, and the research manager at the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) at Stanford University.  

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