Matrix On Point: Propaganda Machines, featuring Dr. Martha Lincoln

MATRIX ON POINT

Propaganda Machines

Thursday, November 5, 4:00pm

820 Social Sciences Building, UC Berkeley

In the age of AI, what is the future of “public truths”? AI-driven tech platforms and

companies, influencers, and deepfakes are issuing ever-new challenges for jour-

nalism, media integrity, and related mechanisms through which democratic societ-

ies hold power to account. At the same time, universities – erstwhile guardians of

critical inquiry and independent knowledge production – are increasingly entering

into partnerships with AI companies, in a new kind of knowledge compact. This

panel brings together scholars of AI and influence in journalism, media, and Cal-

ifornia’s universities to address this technology’s increasingly powerful role in the

current U.S. landscape of information and knowledge politics.

Panelists

• Maty Bohacek, Researcher, Stanford University
• Martha Kenney, Professor of Women & Gender Studies, San Francisco State University
• Martha Lincoln, Associate Professor of Anthropology, San Francisco State University
• Edward Wasserman, Professor of Journalism, UC Berkeley
• Cori Hayden (moderator), Director of Social Science Matrix, Robert H. Lowie Professor of Anthropology, UC Berkeley

REGISTER: https://tinyurl.com/propaganda-machines

If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alterna-

tive media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate

in this event, contact ckapelke@berkeley.edu with as much advance notice as possible.