6 November 2024

Media and AI: the good, the bad and the uncertain

Specialising in digital media, arts and entertainment, he has a PhD in video optimisation for e-commerce and has worked in the media since the 1990s.

Oxford Tea Talks

A conversation between Carissa Veliz and Alex Connock

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Carissa Veliz and Alex Connock play 'good cop, bad cop' as they debate if AI is positively or negatively impacting the media industry today.

Is the artificial intelligence (AI) business model adding value to media or is it being devalued as content becomes homogenous and reduced to training content for large language models?
Does AI deliver democratic empowerment or in this era of fake news is democracy itself threatened?
Is AI enabling us to live in a new Age of Enlightenment with amplified human understanding or as it trains itself on its own content generation are we moving one step further away from human experience?
Will media jobs will be put in peril or by outsourcing the mundane tasks will it allow for greater creativity?
Who owns the media today - the creators or the tech oligopolies?

Dr. Alex Connock, is a Senior Fellow at Saïd Business School and his specialism is AI and media. He is the author of Media Management and Artificial Intelligence. Alex teaches on our Oxford Digital Marketing: Disruptive Strategy Programme and on our Oxford Executive Diploma in Artificial Intelligence for Business.

Carissa Veliz, is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data, and specialises in privacy and AI ethics.

AI is a transformative and disruptive force across industries and sectors. Alex teaches on a number of AI related programmes at Oxford Saïd where we work with students and participants to ensure that they understand the mechanics behind AI, its potential and its challenges and can then in turn develop strategies for responsible AI deployment

Explore the Oxford AI Ethics, Regulation and Compliance Programme Learn more about the Oxford Digital Marketing: Disruptive Strategy Programme

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