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CRC Critical Data Autumn School 2026 | Synthetic Social Media: Studying Platform-Embedded AI

University Siegen Herrengarten 3, Siegen, Germany

Social media platforms are increasingly shaped by the integration of generative AI alongside long-standing analytical and predictive models. Today’s algorithmic systems are moving from the background infrastructure to the forefront of digital social life – intervening in the content feeds as conversational agents like xAI’s Grok, reshaping identity through synthetic likenesses of OpenAI’s Sora-2, and […]

The Future of Speech Online 2026: The Death of Online Anonymity?

Virtual

This year’s Future of Speech Online will examine the need for online anonymity, where it should or shouldn’t be compromised, the emerging and growing threats to anonymity online, and how to mitigate them. We will bring together civil society, academics, companies, practitioners and others to demonstrate how anonymity is used, how it is achieved technically, […]

Protecting Democracy’s Data | Book Talk

Virtual

The United States census, conducted every ten years, is one of the world’s oldest and biggest data-making endeavors, and one of the country’s most consequential. In her urgent new book Data Are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census, professor, researcher, and Data & Society founder […]

Co-Opting AI: Archives

Virtual

Co-Opting AI: Archives will examine how archives and archiving—as infrastructure, epistemology, and social practice—relate to contemporary AI systems. The session will be recorded for those who cannot attend live – make sure to register to receive notification when the video is available to view.

AI x Investigative Journalism Forum at The New York Times | Hacks/Hackers

The New York Times 242 W 41st St, New York, NY, United States

​From document analysis to pattern detection to verification, AI is changing how investigative journalists dive into research and how fast they can move. The question now is how to scale those skills and put them in the hands of reporters to do more accountability journalism under deadline. ​Join Hacks/Hackers at The New York Times for […]

Call for Submissions: Digital Competition Conference 2027

Knight-Georgetown Institute

The rapid diffusion of AI and the emergence of AI agents capable of independently accessing tools, initiating processes, and acting on users’ behalf may fundamentally reshape how information and economic activity are organized online. These developments are raising new questions about market power, entry, innovation, and control across the technology stack. At the same time, […]

Who Gets to Decide How AI Enters Our Schools? With Data & Society

Hybrid

Explore how AI’s role in classrooms is being shaped in New York City and beyond with Coding Kids author Natasha Singer and other panelists at this discussion presented by the research and policy institute Data & Society. This event will take place in person and online at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library on the 7th Floor. This […]

AI Hype, Hope and Humanity (AI HHH) Festival

De Doelen Kruisplein 40, Rotterdam, Netherlands

The AI Hype, Hope and Humanity (AI HHH) Festival is a space for genuine exchange, where knowledge flows in every direction, and where responsibility is treated not as an abstract principle, but as something negotiated in practice. Over three days, the festival moves through a deliberate arc: Societal challenges and current uses of AI across domains including work, health, education, […]

Measuring Media Use and Effects: Computational Opportunities and Challenges | Annual Conference of the Methods Division of the German Communication Association (DGPuK)

GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8, Köln, Germany

The increasing availability of digital behavioral data and computational tools has transformed how communication researchers study media use, exposure, and effects. These developments offer unprecedented analytical depth – but also introduce new complexities in measurement, theory-building, and ethical practice. This year’s conference of the Methods Division invites contributions that advance and critically engage with computational […]

The World Model and Spatial Intelligence Era: Governing AI Beyond Language | Stanford HAI

Hybrid

As AI moves beyond language into systems that can perceive, understand, and act in the physical world, a new frontier is emerging: world models—AI systems that build and maintain working representations of real environments to predict how they change in response to action. Building upon a recent Stanford HAI Policy Brief, this seminar will examine […]