Aaron Gordon

May 30, 2024 | proofnews.org | Aaron Gordon |Julia Angwin

Journalism is experiencing a crisis of trust, according to Proof News founder Julia Angwin. That crisis is partially attributable to the complexity of our current information age, but journalists have also fed the problem, Angwin told Michael O’Connell on ant episode of his podcast, “It’s All Journalism.” Journalists, for instance, sometimes overfit narratives to a predetermined story line, or inadvertently overstate their findings. “We sometimes write stories that are too declarative,” she said.

May 30, 2024 | proofnews.org | Aaron Gordon |Julia Angwin

Proof News founder Julia Angwin spoke with Reuters reporter Edward Suárez about why Proof is taking a methodological approach to covering artificial intelligence. “The debate around AI is too focused on whether AI is going to kill us or not,” she said. “It’s like talking about flying cars and how we're going to regulate them when we haven’t regulated the cars that are on the roads.”Read more about how she thinks we should evaluate AI’s problems and potential here.

May 29, 2024 | proofnews.org | Aaron Gordon |Julia Angwin |Claire Brown

Until last week, most Americans had not used AI chatbots, according to the latest polling from Pew Research Center. But Google’s decision to include AI results at the top of its search results earlier this month changed all that. Suddenly Google’s U.S. users could see the performance of Google’s AI chatbot at the top of their search results. It wasn’t pretty.

May 22, 2024 | proofnews.org | Aaron Gordon |Julia Angwin |Claire Brown |Alondra Nelson

In the ever-changing world of AI models, the rules are often unclear. Especially when it comes to content moderation. Let me give you an example. Curious about how AI models would answer questions about climate change, I was testing some common myths using the AI querying tool that we built for our recent investigations in AI responses to voter queries — a collaboration between Proof News and the Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab at the Institute for Advanced Study.

Mar 8, 2024 | fantasyalarm.com | Aaron Gordon |Jamal Murray |Kristaps Porzingis |Jayson Tatum

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