This article is the second in a series about the risks and rewards of generative AI, incorporating perspectives from faculty affiliated with the Digital Futures Institute (DFI) and Edmund W. Gordon Institute for Urban and Minority Education. We’re continuing the conversation with Ioana Literat, Associate Professor of Communication, Media and Learning Technologies Design.
TC’s Ioana Literat has complicated feelings around artificial intelligence (AI). More than anything, she is an optimist who sees the positives that generative AI can bring to society — even in just pushing educators to think deeply about their goals and what skills they want to cultivate in their students. However, as a leading scholar exploring the growth and evolution of political expression on social media platforms like TikTok, Literat has some mounting concerns as the 2024 U.S. presidential election looms closer, particularly with the way that visual misinformation produced with AI can upset societies and influence political choices.