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Amy Webb

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Amy Webb, a 2014-15 Visiting Nieman Fellow, is a quantitative futurist and founder of the Future Today Institute. The author of "The Signals Are Talking: Why Today’s Fringe Is Tomorrow’s Mainstream," she is also a professor at the NYU Stern School of Business.

China and the AI Edge

China and the AI Edge

 In “The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans & Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity,” published March 5 by PublicAffairs, Amy Webb examines how artificial intelligence (AI) is evolving in…
March 5, 2019
The Coming Splinternet: How the GDPR Could Threaten Journalism

The Coming Splinternet: How the GDPR Could Threaten Journalism

At the end of May, European regulators will implement sweeping privacy rules known as the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR. The GDPR is intended to harmonize data protection regulations…
May 21, 2018
Let's Stop Blaming Facebook and Google and Start Fixing the News Business

Let’s Stop Blaming Facebook and Google and Start Fixing the News Business

Yesterday, New York Times media columnist Jim Rutenberg argued that America’s advertisers have a civic obligation to save the news. Not only is he wrong, but he’s giving a free pass…
May 8, 2017
AI Is Journalism’s Next Big Threat (or Opportunity)

AI Is Journalism’s Next Big Threat (or Opportunity)

Recently I watched a 15-second Burger King commercial, which was designed to trigger my voice-activated Google devices. In the ad, a Burger King employee, standing behind a counter at the…
April 24, 2017
Why News Organizations Should Buy Twitter

Why News Organizations Should Buy Twitter

Since its founding, Twitter has always lost money—more than $2 billion since 2011 alone. Oddly enough, Twitter now faces the same problem as newsrooms did back in the day when…
January 27, 2017
A Blueprint for How to Make J-School Matter (Again)

A Blueprint for How to Make J-School Matter (Again)

In the fall of 2000, I sat in the large seminar room at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism listening to a lecture about whether journalists should be allowed…
March 19, 2015