In this one hour online panel discussion, Deborah Lupton is joined by Jed Brown, Dagmar Monett and Zachary Kaiser to discuss why it is important to resist generative AI technologies and how to do it. There will be time set aside for Q and A. All are welcome to participate.
Copyright is having its data privacy moment. The growing AI infrastructure requires access to millions of copyrighted works, mining creative works not for their expressive purpose but for their data value. This lecture explores how privacy law has addressed the datafication of user information and considers the lessons this may hold for copyright law, which has struggled to grapple with the datafication of creativity.
Join us for a conversation with Mona Sloane on how AI Is restructuring social life.
Mona Sloane is Assistant Professor of Data Science and Media Studies at the University of Virginia. Her latest book, Predicted: How AI Is Restructuring Social Life (University of California Press, 2026) is a pragmatic approach to the predictive logic of AI, which is analyzed as a social arrangement. Mona is Faculty Co-Lead of the Digital Technology and Democracy Lab at the Karsh Institute of Democracy. She also runs Sloane Lab at UVA, which conducts empirical research on the implications of technology for the organization of social life.
The PERN Salon will be livestreamed to the public via Zoom.