Artificial Intelligence (AI) is impacting virtually every part of modern society. This course examines one area of AI’s impact: the media. Recent advances in AI – especially what is known as Generative AI (GAI), or AI that can create movies, music, news stories, video games, and more – present particularly profound implications for journalism and media. In this course, students will develop their AI literacy, including a critical understanding of AI and how it can be utilized ethically in the context of journalism, media, and society.

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Critically analyze the use of generative AI (across all modalities)
• Critically assess content for indicators of AI generation to avoid deception
• Demonstrate effective use of generative AI tools to produce high quality, ethically created media work.