Mizzou hosts an annual Scholastic Journalism "JDay" during our spring break, 1,500 high school students and advisors from around the state gather on campus for workshops and discussions. This morning I got to speak with a group of advisors about the practice of teaching the ethics of
The brain is an expensive tool to operate, and so human biology is hardwired to take the path of least resistance when making decisions. As newsrooms consider the most efficient and ethical means to integrate AI workflows, we must design for the human-in-the-loop as much as the LLM. Even when,
Immanuel Kant, born in 1724, developed the Categorical Imperative, which we can understand as: If a choice I make were to become a universal law, would I accept that outcome? For instance, If I decide to lie to gain an advantage, what if everyone were to follow that example? The
On the lecture circuit, I almost never repeat the same slide deck twice. Usually, events move too quickly for the exact lesson to be replayed. The one exception: a discussion about the ethics of journalism technology, which I have probably delivered 10 times, in class, online, in the U.S.
In 1937’s “The Nature of the Firm,” Ronald Coase introduced the idea that businesses exist as the most efficient way to manage information and activity in pursuit of an economic goal. The later Transaction Cost Theory argues that the internal growth (the addition and specialization of roles) in a