Huo Jingnan
Huo Jingnan is a reporter curious about how people navigate complex information landscapes and all the actors shaping that journey — people that produce and distribute content, people monitoring the content, and people affected by them.
Previously, she was an associate producer on NPR's Investigations team. She looked into flood-prone homes sold by the federal government, investigated why face mask guidelines differ between countries early in the COVID-19 outbreak, and helped gauge the federal government's role behind black lung disease's resurgence. The projects she was a part of have won awards including Edward Murrow Award, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Communications award, Silver Gavel Award, and have also been nominated for Emmy Awards and George Foster Peabody awards.
She can be reached via encrypted message at _J_H.07 on Signal.
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In a test, popular AI chatbots mostly debunked falsehoods spread by other countries and avoided uncritically spreading falsehoods better than search engines. AI summaries above search results fared worse. -
OpenAI and Anthropic say their models broke into other companies' systems during testing, raising security concerns amid a heated debate over how to regulate AI. -
Kerr announced his bid to break the world record months in advance, and pulled off the plan in London on Saturday. -
New plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Elon Musk's SpaceXAI and Stability AI say the companies' AI tools were used to make sexually explicit images of them as children. -
While workers, who were employees in government or public institutions, feel vindicated by how their lawsuits concluded, they are still grappling with the aftermath. -
Gregory Bovino was the face of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown. Recently, he appeared at a conference alongside neo-Nazis and white nationalists. -
The site compares undocumented immigrants to extraterrestrials, refers to people as "it," and says "they do not belong here." -
Open-weight AI models with advanced capabilities and no safeguards are becoming much more accessible. While they can be useful, AI safety experts have concerns. -
Hourly workers across a number of industries have long been grappling with unstable schedules and pay as their employers use software to slash labor costs and maximize productivity. -
The short course provides solid basics for using AI. But it also misidentifies AI products, links out to bad advice and raises ethical concerns about the products it promotes
