Paul Barrett

Oct 25, 2024 | ethicsandjournalism.org | Paul Barrett

One of the ways that Donald Trump has reshaped American politics over the past decade is to shift our collective focus from debate about policy choices to disagreement about simple facts, encouraging baseless questions about the integrity of U.S. elections to be raised in the minds of many in the electorate. These disagreements about facts range from the historic to the absurd: What happened at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021?

Mar 13, 2024 | time.com | Paul Barrett |Justin Hendrix |Paul Barrett

IdeasBarrett is the deputy director of the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights. Hendrix is the editor of Tech Policy Press and an adjunct professor at NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering. This election cycle will be the first exposed to generative artificial intelligence—the technology behind popular apps like ChatGPT that enables even non-experts to create fake, but realistic-looking text, video, and audio perfectly suited for political manipulation.