Want to looking all to city lights. We are thrilled to have Samuel Woolley with us here tonight celebrating a very, very important new book called the reality game how the next wave of technology will break the truth. It is from our friends at Public Affairs book. He is a a writer and researcher specializing in the study of ai, emergent technology, politics, persuasion and social media. Hes an assistant professor in the school of journalism and Program Director for competition all Propaganda Research of the center for media engagement of university of texas at austin. Dr. Woolley founded and directed the Digital Intelligence lab at the institute for the future which is a 50yearold think tank based in the heart of silicon valley. He also cofounded and directed the Research Team at computational propaganda project at Oxford Internet institute at the university of oxford. He has written on political manipulation of technology or a variety of publications. These include wired, the atlantic
To City Lights Book publishers. We are thrilled to have Samuel Woolley with us celebrating a very important book called the reality game how the next wave of technology will break the truth. It is from our friends at Public Affairs books. Samuel woolley is a writer and researcher specializing in the study of ai, emergent technology, politics, persuasion and social media, assistant professor of the school of journalism and Program Director for Computational Propaganda Research at the center for media engagement at the university of texas at austin. Samuel woolley founded and directed the Digital Intelligence lab at the institute of the future, 50yearold think tank based in the heart of Silicon Valley and cofounded and directed the Research Team at the computational propaganda project at Oxford Internet institute at the university of oxford. He has written on political manipulation of technology for a variety of publications including wired, the atlantic monthly, tech crunch, the guardia
Woolley with us here tonight celebrating a very, very important new book. Its called the reality game how the next wave of technology will break the truth. It is from our friends at Public Affairs books. Dr. Woolley is a writer and researcher specializing in the study of a. I. , emergent technology, politics, persuasion and social media. He is an assistant professor in the school of journalism and Program Director for Computational Propaganda Research at the center for media engagement at the university of texas at austin. Professor woolley founded and directed the Digital Intelligence lab at the institute for the future which is a 50yearold think tank based in the heart of silicon valley. He also directed the Research Team at the computational propaganda project at the university of oxford. He has written on political manipulation of technology for a variety of publications including wired, the atlantic monthly, vice, tech crunch, the guardian and many, many others. His research has b
With our partners at Elliott Bay Book company. Our civic series in our inside out theories at town hall is a special year for reasons i make clear in a moment supported by the true brown foundation. Our civics programs are sponsored by boeing, the Realnetworks Foundation and partnership. Doctor white will speak 35 or 40 moments and will have time for questions. The mike will rotate that way and be available to you for the q and a later. I would ask you keep your questions concise and in the form of a question so we get to as many folks as possible over the course of the evening, youre sure to have many questions. We have copies of the republic for which it stands available for purchase purchase and Richard White of signature back there. It is a big book, he will cover a lot of material with plenty left unread and unheard. If you dont want to pick up a copy, that is a sales pitch, it is the truth. I want to acknowledge the obvious, this is not townhall. It is a townhall program. As you
Good evening. Im the executive director of town hall seattle. This is richard white, our civics series in this our insideout season of town hall. Its a special year. Our civic programs are always sponsored by boeing, the Real Networks foundation, kuow and the amazon literary partnership. Dr. White will speak for 3540 minutes and then have time for questions. This mic im using will rotate that way and be available to you for ill do to rotate for the q a later. We ask that you keep your questions concise and as we like to say in the form of a question so we get to as many folks as possible over the course of the evening. Youre sure to have a lot of questions. And then afterwards well have copies of the republic for which it stands, available for purchase and for dr. Whites signature at the Elliott Bay Book Company Table back there its a big, thick book. He is going to cover a lot of material but left plenty left and unheard. Thats not a sales pitch or anything. Just the truth, pick up a