Yesterday's announcement by Google shows how tech companies are increasingly positioning generative AI as a tool for search. This has consequences for the public arena, news production, and political information. blog.google/products/sea...

Generative AI in Search: Let Google do the searching for you

We’re bringing AI Overviews to everyone in the U.S. and adding new gen AI experiences to take more of the legwork out of searching.

In our article "Artificial Intelligence and the Public Arena" Ralph Schroeder and I discuss how this development leads to structural shifts within the public arena. academic.oup.com/ct/article/3...

Artificial intelligence and the public arena

Abstract. The public arena relies on artificial intelligence (AI) to ever greater degrees. Media structures hosting the public arena—such as Facebook, TikT