John Wihbey

@wihbey

prof @Northeastern, media & tech, AIMES Lab, IIID, HuskyAI, Social Fact, Governing Babel

Boston camd.northeastern.edu/faculty/john-p… Joined February 2009

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John Wihbey @wihbey Jul 29

A real highlight for me this year! Thank you again @yaleisp

The Information Society Project @yaleisp Jul 29

Catch up on a conversation from last semester’s ISP Law & Technology Speaker Series.

Watch “AI and Social Media: Global Perils and Governance Possibilities” with @wihbey (@Northeastern), now available on our YouTube channel.

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John Wihbey @wihbey Jul 6

G7 should accept AI standards offer, but make it enforceable brookings.edu/articles/g7-sh… thnx @tewheels for excellent ideas

www.brookings.edu G7 should accept AI standards offer, but make it enforceable | Brookings Tom Wheeler discusses the need to harmonize policies that promote the promise of AI while protecting enterprises, developers, and users.

John Wihbey @wihbey Nov 13, 2025

Some of my thoughts here on AI, public knowledge, and where we may be headed as a culture: techpolicy.press/in-post-authen… @techpolicypress

www.techpolicy.press In Post-Authenticity AI Age, Knowledge Institutions Matter More than Ever The pressing question is whether we can rebuild epistemic infrastructure before norms of authenticity decay beyond repair, writes John Wihbey.

John Wihbey @wihbey Sep 26, 2025

Using AI to do message testing/scope public preferences? My lab's new paper provides guidance: "AI Simulations of Audience Attitudes and Policy Preferences: “Silicon Sampling” Guidance for Communications Practitioners" lnkd.in/eKgn3tTE @BurnesCenter @Northeastern

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John Wihbey @wihbey Sep 24, 2025

The First Amendment is one of America’s greatest global contributions and is a key foreign policy lever. Let’s renew it and use it to think through our networked platform challenges. This is my call in Governing Babel (out Oct 7): mitpress.mit.edu/9780262049917/… @mitpress @Northeastern

mitpress.mit.edu Governing Babel The large, corporate global platforms networking the world’s publics now host most of the world’s information and communication. Much has been wr...