Nick Diakopoulos

Do you have to have to be a professor or have a PhD to be a scientist?

Check out the datainnovation.org newsletter— it’s almost all beneficial cases they share every week, though I’ve never assessed it in terms of hype…

Well so we focused on the negative impacts there so didn’t actually analyze the benefit side. I would venture the general norm in straight reporting is to focus on concrete but speculation creeps in esp in opinion. Would be a good empirical question…

Interesting premise and project … in our recent paper only about 40% of news articles talked about risks of AI www.arxiv.org/pdf/2507.23718

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.

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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.

Screenshot of the website, showing the dates (December 11-12) and the place (Miami)

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...

GitHub - palewire/open-source-news-analysis: How active are news nerds on GitHub? How active are news nerds on GitHub? Contribute to palewire/open-source-news-analysis development by creating an account on GitHub.

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

The Journalism Benchmark Cookbook: A Template for Benchmarking LLMs in Newsrooms Our approach to creating a community-oriented AI benchmark for journalism

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

Do people actually ask chatbots who they should vote for in NL? Like what’s the ecological validity of the risk?

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.

A rectangular Northwestern University flyer titled “Call for Study Participants.” The top banner is pink with bold black text reading “CALL FOR STUDY PARTICIPANTS.” Below it, highlighted in yellow, is the question: “Are you a journalist writing about technology and/or computing?” The flyer explains that researchers at Northwestern University are seeking professional journalists who cover technology or related topics, write news in English, and are based in the U.S. to participate in an online study. The study involves using a tool for two weeks, providing feedback, and receiving $100 compensation (IRB Study #STU00224608). It includes a yellow box that says “Fill out our eligibility form if you’re interested!” with the link https://tinyurl.com/newscompass and contact emails: Nick Diakopoulos (nad@northwestern.edu) and Sachita Nishal (nishal@u.northwestern.edu). The Northwestern University seal appears in the top-right corner.

📣 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!

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“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

Networked AI Accountability How different forums contributed to producing accountability in the Dutch welfare scandal.

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

Machines in the Crowd? Measuring the Footprint of Machine-Generated Text on Reddit Generative Artificial Intelligence is reshaping online communication by enabling large-scale production of Machine-Generated Text (MGT) at low cost. While its presence is rapidly growing across the We...

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:
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How California’s New AI Law Supports Accountability California's new AI law takes a "better safe than sorry" approach, creating prospective accountability for catastrophic risks from the world's most powerful "frontier" AI models.

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...

I don’t think I understood what a “provost” was until I was in a TT position…

SEC 10-K Disclosures as a Route to Corporate AI Accountability? There's some value to them, but policy needs to call for more specific statements

@melissahei.bsky.social and team may also be interested in academic work on the subject, which I talk about here: ndiakopoulos.substack.com/p/sec-10-k-d...

Trump Says the U.S. Will Institute $100,000 Fee for Skilled Worker Visas

This is horrible. Another sledgehammer to immigration, academia, and innovation. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...

The News Industry’s GenAI Cautionary Tales Generative AI failures have shown, among other things, the value of scrutinizing outsourced work.

What can we learn from the news industry's missteps with GenAI? Clare Spencer recaps some of the most visible fails in the industry for GAIN: generative-ai-newsroom.com/the-news-ind...

Administrative Boon, Editorial Question: Generative AI’s Role in Small Newsrooms A study of 20 small newsrooms reveals that the real value of generative AI isn’t in writing stories, but in back office tasks.

What if all journalists from small (local) outlets really need from GenAI is help with some admin tasks? Read more about Stuart Duncan's research findings on the GAIN blog here: generative-ai-newsroom.com/administrati...

From today's opening keynote - @ndiakopoulos.bsky.social on the many ways, positive & negative, that AI can affect how journalists work #datajconf

Lord Elgin catching some serious (deserved) shade at the Acropolis.

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How GenAI Tools are Helping Journalists Monitor Public Meetings From a school board selling off land to a suburb running out of water, journalists are using GenAI to find stories from local meetings

New on the GAIN blog today from @clarespencer.bsky.social . Local journalists are finding value in using GenAI tools to monitor public meetings and find important stories. More here: generative-ai-newsroom.com/how-genai-to...

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