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Michael Crow:
We didn't violate anybody's rights. This is not a public street. It's not a public park. This is a university. So time, place and manner for a demonstration or an event is essential to the operation of the university. We're running a university here. We're not running a playground.
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Audrey Lippert:
Welcome back to the podcast! This week, Politics Editor Carsten Oyer joins the show as we look back on the State Press’s conversation with President Crow.
Trent Ashdown:
We also discuss the use of AI at Cronkite in a sit-down interview hosted by Myah France with Cronkite professor Shelby Grossman
Audrey Lippert:
I’m Audrey Lippert.
Trent Ashdown:
I’m Trent Ashdown, and this is State Press Play.
Audrey Lippert:
Welcome back to State Press Play. I'm Audrey Lippert, here today with Carsten Oyer, the politics editor with the state press. He recently sat down with President Crow to discuss all things ASU. Carsten, how was the Crowversation?
Carsten Oyer:
It was interesting. It always is interesting. This is the second time I've done this. This is my second time doing the crowversation. And, you know, we always come in with different questions based on what's happening at ASU. So I'd say no crowversation is exactly the same. And I'm certain this one was unique in its own way.
Audrey Lippert:
So give us a little bit of background about how you decide which topics to bring up in this conversation with President Crow.
Carsten Oyer:
Yeah. So all of us editors, our editor-in-chief, Sophia Braccio, our managing editors, and us desk editors all have access to a document that we are preparing in roughly the week ahead of the conversation, sometimes earlier, that we just add our questions to. And when I'm thinking of crowversation questions, what I'm really thinking about is, what do we want to hear from him about? What stories did we produce in the past couple weeks, in the past semester, that we want to make sure that we can get his opinion on or get additional information on? So the crowversation really is a good chance to pick his brain. So when we're asking those questions and formulating them, we're really trying to get at... kind of what he thinks about certain things, which sometimes is different than what the university says.
To hear more from Carsten, please tune in to State Press Play.
Myah France:
All right, so I'm going to start out, I'm just going to ask you to introduce yourself a little bit, anything you'd like anyone that's listening in to know about you.
Shelby Grossman:
Yeah, hi, I'm Shelby Grossman, and I am a professor of practice of AI and investigativejournalism at the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the Cronkite School.
Myah France:
All right. And what is your background with AI?
Shelby Grossman:
So I only joined ASU about eight months ago. Prior to that, I spent six years working at the Stanford Internet Observatory, where I studied the ways that people misuse technology products to cause harm, including AI. So I studied how foreign state actors will use AI to run covert influence operations targeting people around the world, for example. And I studied how people use AI to exploit children online.
To hear more from Shelby, please tune in to State Press Play.
Audrey Lippert:
And that’s all for this week’s State Press Play. I’m Audrey Lippert.
Trent Ashdown:
I’m Trent Ashdown. State Press Play is produced by our podcast editor, Audrey Lippert and video podcast editor Trent Ashdown. Our original music is by Ellie Willard and Jake LaRoux.
Audrey Lippert:
Special thanks to our Multimedia Editors.
Trent Ashdown:
You can check out all these stories and more on statepress.com. See you next week.
