Category: Posts
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Worker-Friendly Media cohort
Are you building a cooperative newsroom or media project? Apply to be part of Start.coop’s Accelerator for Worker-Friendly Media, including financial and technical support, plus a week with my lab here in Boulder. Learn more here: https://www.start.coop/accelerator
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Naim Aburradi on VR and genocide
Listen! My lab’s radio show this month features the extraordinary Dr. Naim Aburradi. He and his friends have risked their safety to document life in Gaza, with a 360-degree camera, before and since the ongoing genocide: https://lookslikenew.net/podcast/how-can-vr-tell-the-story-of-genocide/ Gaza is so, so much more than a headline and a plume of smoke.
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Magnifica Humanitas takes
Compendium of my Magnifica Humanitas takes: The Dueling A.I. Apocalypses—and What Pope Leo Has to Say about Both https://www.americamagazine.org/short-take/2026/05/29/the-dueling-a-i-apocalypses-and-what-pope-leo-has-to-say-about-both/ Pope Leo XIV Compares AI to the Industrial Revolution—as New Alternatives to Big AI Firms Take Shape https://theconversation.com/pope-leo-xiv-compares-ai-to-the-industrial-revolution-as-new-alternatives-to-big-ai-firms-take-shape-283249 Three Questions on AI for You, from Pope Leo https://nathanschneider.info/2026/06/three-questions-on-ai-for-you-from-pope-leo/
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Pope Leo and the AI apocalypses
New in America, I argue that a central thread of Pope Leo’s encyclical is to counter the secular apocalypses that have spread in AI culture: https://www.americamagazine.org/short-take/2026/05/29/the-dueling-a-i-apocalypses-and-what-pope-leo-has-to-say-about-both/
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Deadline extended: “Why We Come Together”
Deadline extended to May 30! Submit your abstracts for “Why We Come Together: Media, Religion, and Community” and come visit us in Boulder this October, along with Fred Moten, Jen Deerinwater, and more: https://www.colorado.edu/cmrc/2026/03/26/why-we-come-together-media-religion-and-community
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The “construction sites” of Magnifica Humanitas
Just out in The Conversation, I explore how Pope Leo XIV’s AI encyclical could reshape the AI industry, akin to what his predecessor did in the Gilded Age: https://theconversation.com/pope-leo-xiv-compares-ai-to-the-industrial-revolution-as-new-alternatives-to-big-ai-firms-take-shape-283249
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Student AI UX
“Students can experience AI models as not just something someone else does for you but something that can happen in your own community”: https://nathanschneider.info/2026/05/a-defunct-email-service-as-a-template-for-campus-ai/
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Open call: Liberatory Media Residency
Media makers, spiritual innovators, activists—especially in Colorado: Please consider applying for our Center for Media, Religion, and Culture’s $25,000 Liberatory Media Residency for next academic year. https://www.colorado.edu/cmrc/2026/04/17/open-call-liberatory-media-residency
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Call for papers: Why We Come Together
Our Center for Media, Religion, and Culture’s next conference is on the radical arts of gathering. Join us—along with Fred Moten, Stefano Harney, and more speakers TBA. The call for abstracts is out, due May 1: https://www.colorado.edu/cmrc/2026/03/26/why-we-come-together-media-religion-and-community
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Timnit Gebru on Looks Like New
I’m thrilled to share that my lab’s podcast, Looks Like New, just hosted the brilliant Timnit Gebru on the possibilities of community-serving AI—listen and subscribe here: https://lookslikenew.net/podcast/can-ai-be-rebuilt-to-serve-communities/