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NEWS: Over several years I sued the US government to ensure that researchers and journalists can investigate misbehaving AI systems. We eventually prevailed, the US Supreme Court affirmed our position and cited... us! This means we successfully changed the definition of hacking in the US.

This subject is discussed in our NEW BOOK published April 2026:

I am the Director of ESC: the Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing as well as the H. Marshall McLuhan Collegiate Professor at the University of Michigan.

At Michigan I teach courses about computers, data science, and justice in the School of Information. I am jointly appointed in the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research.

I am also in Communication & Media, Art & Design; Science, Technology, & Society; the Digital Studies Institute; and the Michigan Institute for Data & AI in Society.

My research investigates the consequences of AI systems that curate and organize culture and information. I have done a bunch of prior work on social media.

Usually, I read. Sometimes, I write. Often, I drink coffee. I might be found in a cafe drinking coffee and reading, or at home drinking coffee and writing. Or just drinking coffee. (This is supposed to be a fun, informal description of what I do. I also have a more formal one and introductory examples.)