Kula is proud to co-present the 2026 Orion Lecture in Fine Arts with special speaker, Mike Ananny.
When: March 19, 2026
Where: Phillip T. Young Recital Hall
Faster than many predicted (or wanted), Generative Artificial Intelligence is upon us. It brings a mix of emotions, a shared sense of uncertainty and a persistent question of what we can and should do — individually and collectively — about technological change that feels powerful, inevitable and beyond our control. In this talk, Mike Ananny will offer ways to define and reckon with Generative AI that might help navigate controversies, intervene with integrity at different scales, and debate the perils and promises of “good enough” technologies.
Ananny is the co-director of USC’s interdisciplinary collective Media as SocioTechnical Systems and the AI for Media & Storytelling initiative of the Center on Generative AI & Society, and is an Affiliated Faculty of Science, Technology & Public Life. He is the author of Networked Press Freedom, co-editor of Bauhaus Futures (both MIT Press), and was an expert advisor to the Minister of Canadian Heritage on the future of CBC/Radio-Canada. He has written for the likes of The Atlantic, WIRED and the Columbia Journalism Review, among others.