Navigating Generative AI and the Threat of Disinformation
We offer the following guidance for using generative AI and for guarding against potential mis- or disinformation created by AI tools. More
PEN America Speaks: How We Defended and Celebrated Free Expression The Week of July 31
PEN America works tirelessly to defend free expression, support persecuted writers, and promote literary culture. Here are some of the latest ways PEN America is speaking out. More
New PEN America White Paper: The Human Spark That Drives Creativity Must be Safeguarded As Potential Threats Loom from Artificial Intelligence
“Generative AI and automated tools represent a sea change in how artists, journalists, and writers create, interact with, and disseminate content, and how the public understands and consumes it.… More
Speech in the Machine: Generative AI’s Implications for Free Expression
PEN America notes the critical free expression issues at stake with generative AI, which has the potential to supercharge tools of deception. More
Three Big Discussions We Need to Have ASAP About AI and Social Media Moderation
Exploring three issues about how exactly content moderation is impacting free expression domestically and around the world. More
The PEN Pod: Putting Tech Under the Microscope with Ainissa Ramirez
“Since so many things are being put underneath the microscope, I hope that technology, too, will be put there.” More
DARE: Twitter is Sweeping Out Fake Accounts, Suspending More than Seventy Million in Two Months
Twitter significantly escalates suspension of fake and suspicious accounts. News organizations debate rationale for broadcasting live Trump rallies. More
DARE: Roseanne Barr’s Right to Offend and Our Right to Say No
Conservatives, liberals, and free expression experts parse the Roseanne Barr firing. Apparent killing of Russian journalist in Ukraine was a hoax staged by security services in an apparent effort… More