Jun 30, 2023 | News, Recent Press
News coverage from June 2023 about the Center for an Informed Public and CIP-affiliated research and researchers. National Public Radio (June 13): “AI-generated images are everywhere. Here’s how to spot them” In a NPR LifeKit segment, reporter Shannon Bond cited...
Apr 29, 2023 | News, Recent Press, Updates
News coverage from April 2023 about the Center for an Informed Public and CIP-affiliated research and researchers. Undark (April 6): “ChatGPT isn’t ‘hallucinating.’ It’s bullshitting.” CIP faculty member and UW Biology professor Carl Bergstrom co-authored an Undark...
Apr 4, 2023 | News, Recent Press, Updates
In a March 31 opinion in The Seattle Times about AI chatbots, University of Washington Center for an Informed Public co-founder Jevin West says that chatbots will be “vectors of propaganda,” make it harder to discern truth and further erode trust in institutions. In...
Mar 31, 2023 | News, Recent Press, Updates
News coverage from March 2023 about the Center for an Informed Public and CIP-affiliated research and researchers. Mother Jones (March 7): “The company offering free health care to East Palestine? It’s a right-wing, anti-vax project” CIP postdoctoral scholar Anna Lee...
Feb 21, 2023 | Education, News, Recent Press, Updates
Although scientists and researchers have been debunking myths around monosodium glutamate for decades, it’s not uncommon to come across online reviews for local Chinese restaurants where Yelp users make unfounded claims about the food ingredient better known as MSG,...
Jan 31, 2023 | News, Recent Press, Updates
News coverage from January 2023 about the Center for an Informed Public and CIP-affiliated research and researchers. KUOW Public Radio (Jan. 9): “Could the U.S. ban TikTok for everyone?” CIP co-founder Ryan Calo was interviewed on KUOW Public Radio’s Soundside program...
