AI & Language
Why Arabic Dialects Still Break Most AI Models
More than 400 million people speak Arabic, but the Arabic most AI systems learn is one almost nobody speaks at home. That gap has consequences.
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Essays and commentary on AI, language, and media, written for curious readers rather than specialists. Many first appeared in magazines and newspapers.
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Media & SocietyThe Anatomy of a Viral Falsehood
We traced a single false health claim across 340 group chats. Its journey reveals why fact-checks so often arrive too late.
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- Digital Heritage
Who Gets to Build the Arabic Internet's Memory?
Entire chapters of the region's recent history lived on blogs and forums that no longer exist. Deciding what to save is a political act.
8 min read
- Media & Society
A Field Guide to Reading AI Research Headlines
“AI outperforms doctors.” “Model understands language.” Five questions to ask before you share the next breakthrough.
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- Policy & Ethics
Open Data Is Not Neutral
Releasing a dataset openly can empower researchers — or expose the very communities it describes. Openness needs a plan.
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- AI & Language
Notes from a Year of Teaching with Language Models
I stopped banning AI tools in my classroom and started asking students to argue with them. Here's what changed.
5 min read
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