UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Jason Lucas, a graduate student pursuing a doctoral degree in informatics in the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology, was a guest speaker on a podcast hosted by NPR affiliate WXXI in Rochester, New York.
Lucas joined Felix Simon from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University, for an episode titled “How is artificial intelligence being used in journalism? What’s coming next?” Lucas discussed the dangers of AI-driven disinformation campaigns during crises.
Lucas is a member of the Penn State Information, Knowledge and wEb (PIKE) Laboratory, where he focuses on applying natural language processing and machine learning techniques to combat dis/misinformation across languages, contexts and distribution gaps.