Me too!

The number of journalists getting stung by this is just incredible. Like my mouth is on the floor that people just do not learn the lesson. Also book publishers.

Today we're launching the Northwestern Agentic AI Investigative Journalism Challenge. Top prize is $5000 and an invitation to present the work at the Computation + Journalism Symposium this fall. Details here: www.gain-agent-challenge.northwestern.edu

I am thrilled to be more involved with #C+J2026! Our CfP (deadline: June 29) centers "News Beyond the Newsroom". We welcome submissions that consider journalism's role in the broader and evolving information ecosystem. Please re-share broadly + let me know any Qs! www.cj2026.northwestern.edu/cfp/

🚨 The Computation + Journalism Symposium is coming back to Evanston this fall! Get it on your calendar now for Oct 2-3, 2026. And participate: We’re soliciting contributions for research papers, workshops, and talks now through June 29. More info on the website here: www.cj2026.northwestern.edu

Much of the world's population, including in the EU (based on our research), is asking for clear AI regulation. The EU today: Restrictions on high-risk uses of artificial intelligence in the EU will be postponed by more than a year! www.politico.eu/article/eu-c...

Reward your model for being nerdy, get nerdy behavior. Train in your own output, pollute your dataset with verbal tics openai.com/index/where-...

Romance fraud has been accelerated by LLMs online. "LLM-powered scam agents achieve 46% victim compliance rates compared to 18% for human operators" link.springer.com/article/10.1...

In the future we’ll have a device, sort of like a continuous glucose monitoring sensor on your arm, that continuously verifies your identity via DNA while you use a computer. This will prove it’s you on the zoom and will stamp documents you create for authenticity.

Conversations with people in 2026: “are those the real numbers or did you get them from AI?”

How could AI explanations work to support accountability? I review some of the research here: www.ai-accountability-review.com/p/from-expla...

Journalists should tread carefully when reporting on surveys these days -- the data could be based on a silicon sample, i.e. not from real people but from a simulation: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/o...

If someone expects you to conjure up a new AI tool out of thin air, share these numbers for how much other newsrooms spent on their AI projects: generative-ai-newsroom.com/how-to-budge...

Must-read piece on the role of tech and policy in the killing of 180 Iranian school girls by US bombs:

🚨 New paper out! Here’s the Introduction to our Special Issue on AI Hype, co‑edited with Naomi Mine, @natalihelberger.bsky.social, @ndiakopoulos.bsky.social & @teachguz.bsky.social, on how AI hype shapes journalism’s norms, values, and labor politics. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This analysis of AI media verification tools could be turned into a benchmark that assesses them over time. Even better would be a journalism benchmark using hard examples from real verification use cases... www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/t...

Cleveland's top newspaper is "removing writing from some reporters' workloads" by using AI to draft articles. We dove into what drove the paper's editor to do that, how it's going and what the paper's human reporters think about it. wapo.st/4aX44e1 w/ @scottnover.bsky.social

Was the Anthropic deadline Friday because they needed it for a weekend thing?

It only took about five years since we proposed it (cacm.acm.org/opinion/what...) , but YouTube recently started rolling out its likeness detection feature to alert creators to synthetic versions of themselves on the platform. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcZt...

Research suggests people who use AI tools to find news seem to prefer them over clicking on individual stories, despite being conscious of their limits when it comes to accuracy. @aisvarya17.bsky.social and I wrote about what publishers can learn from this www.cjr.org/tow_center/a...

What if you could practice your interview skills with a simulated science journalist? New on Generative AI in the Newsroom: generative-ai-newsroom.com/training-bet...

New blog post: A case study on using Claude Code in data journalism -> kschaul.com/post/2026/02...

AI is helpful for monitoring, collecting, and helping appraise research for a living literature review, but when it comes to synthesis or interpretation it's still lacking: www.ai-accountability-review.com/p/experiment...

Ironic

Sometimes I just want to pack up and get out of this country. Anyone else? Where are people landing?

🎉 The #MassMediaFellowship 2026 application closes in 2 days! Apply now for a chance to use your scientific background to write stories for the general public in newsrooms across the country. #SciComm 🔗 bit.ly/3KugH6D

The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.

NSF plans to streamline merit review to heal self-inflicted staffing wound www.science.org/content/arti...

I have started a public notebook for the C+J conference at the University of Miami today and tomorrow. notebooklm.google.com/notebook/51e...

What’s the Gen Z hand signal for “check please”? I imagine it’s a sort of phone tapping motion…

A smart explanation of "vibe coding," including how @jamditis.bsky.social used it to build a dashboard for volunteers in Springfield, NJ who were coordinating food assistance deliveries during the SNAP crisis and beyond generative-ai-newsroom.com/vibe-coding-...

🚨 Postdoc opening -- Come work with us at Northwestern! 🚨 This position is to work on evaluating LLMs for sociopolitical value expression: postdocs.northwestern.edu/announcement... -- Please share!

Vibe coding for newsrooms: generative-ai-newsroom.com/vibe-coding-...

Northwestern’s agreement to restore federal funding: www.northwestern.edu/president/do...

Spread the word! 📢 The FATE (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics) group at @msftresearch.bsky.social in NYC is hiring interns and postdocs to start in summer 2026! 🎉 Apply by *December 15* for full consideration.

For over 50 years, @aaas.org places students and post docs studying science, engineering, mathematics and medicine in newsrooms across the country as #MassMediaFellows. Check out this video to learn more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeYv... #SciComm #Fellowship

We mapped Operation Midway Blitz in Illinois with @evidentmedia.org. A federal judge will hold a hearing today (November 5th) on whether a temporary restraining order restricting crowd-control tactics in Illinois should be converted into a preliminary injunction. youtube.com/shorts/HKXEY...

10% of surveyed Dutch citizens told us they are likely to ask AI for election advice. They shouldn't! This is especially problematic as we know that the people who usually consult advice applications are undecided and are doing so right before casting their vote. algosoc.org/results/1-in...

First time in a Waymo last night in Atl. It got me home. Odd route, not the most direct. The acceleration felt … not human. Anxiety crossing roads after a stop or as erratic pedestrians and bikers nearby but the display helps… autonomous cars are here.

The full agenda of the Computation+Journalism Symposium is online! Join us in Miami for two days (December 11-12) of great talks, workshops, panels, and paper presentations: cplusj2025.com/agenda Register here: events.miami.edu/event/cplusj...

Nice dataset of Github repos from 300+ news orgs back to 2008: github.com/palewire/ope...

The Journalism Benchmark Cookbook, our attempt to create a framework for ecologically valid evals in journalism: generative-ai-newsroom.com/the-journali...

This morning there was a volunteer citizen patrol around the local high school in my neighborhood, vigilant for signs of ICE and ready to raise the alarm. It makes me sad that this is our country now, but also proud that people are rising to the occasion to help protect the local community.

📣 Attention science + tech journalists! Trying to keep up with the flood of research papers that come out every day? Attempting to track what research has already been covered by others, and what may benefit from deeper exploration? You are invited to participate in our research study! [1/3]

You need to see this: “The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

AI Accountability is a joint effort. Just look at how the legal, social, political, and media forums were networked in holding the Dutch SyRI system accountable. Full analysis here: www.ai-accountability-review.com/p/networked-...

new polls website just dropped fiftyplusone.news

How prevalent is machine generated text on Reddit? This report says it could be as high as 9% in some sub communities and some timeframes: arxiv.org/abs/2510.07226

The Block Club Chicago newsroom continues to report on today’s federal immigration activity across Chicago. If you have footage of agent activity you filmed, please reach out via this website: blockclubchi.co/3IIYou4

California’s new AI law is a nice example of how you might go about legislating prospective AI accountability to prevent risks that are uncertain. www.ai-accountability-review.com/p/how-califo...