Recent Activities
Over time, this will be populated with fellowships, talks, panels, workshops, and other appearances, with the most recent first. My publications are listed separately under Publications, and press coverage under Media Coverage.
2026
- — On 18 November, I will take part in a fireside chat with Tami Hoffman (Director of Public Policy, The Guardian) at the Journalism AI Festival at the LSE in London, titled ‘Participant or Watchdog: should journalism shape the AI rules?’. As global AI regulation takes shape, we will discuss whether news organisations can act as both active stakeholders and impartial watchdogs, and how they can shape AI policy debates on copyright, transparency and safety without losing their editorial credibility.
- — On 10 November, I spoke on AI and political persuasion at the parliamentary reception ‘Artificial Intelligence and the Future We’re Building’ at the UK Parliament in London, co-hosted by the Oxford Internet Institute and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on AI (APPG AI) and hosted by Professor Lord Lionel Tarassenko.
- — On 27 October, I will give a keynote at NEXT: Media for the Next Generation in Mechelen, titled ‘(Conversational) AI as Information Machines? Sketching the Contours of a New Information Landscape’. AI, and conversational AI systems in particular, are increasingly important gateways to information. The keynote will trace this development and ask what it portends for the information landscape and for the role of news within it.
- — I am visiting Washington, D.C. (6–10 October) to give a talk on AI, information, and news at the Pew Research Center and to attend a workshop on agentic information futures hosted by the Knight-Georgetown Institute.
- — I spent September as an Invited Fellow at the College for Social Sciences and Humanities in Essen, where I worked on how agentic AI systems can be aligned with democratic values in the provision of information and news.