We discuss how we can tell the truth, how we can speak the truth, and how we can avoid misinformation and disinformation.

Pauline's civic action toolkit recommendations are:

1. Maintain a degree of curiosity!

2. Care before you share.

Pauline Hoffman, also known as the Data Doyenne, is an esteemed infodemiologist and the author of Fake News, Witch Hunts, and Conspiracy Theories: An Infodemiologist's Guide to the Truth.

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We discuss how AI can both serve the public interest and advance the goals of our democracy, despite the misgivings about the current state of AI.

Bruce's civic action toolkit recommendations are:

1) Use the tools of AI!

2) Use assistive tech to write to your elected representatives

Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, chief of security architecture at Inrupt Inc, a lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School, and the co-author of Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship.

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We discuss Practical Radicals: Seven Strategies to Change the World—a guide for a new generation of activists seeking not just to understand power, but to build it.

Stephanie's civic action toolkit recommendations are:

1) Learn a new skill, like non cooperation or mutual aid

2) Find organizations that align with your values and check if they offer trainings

Stephanie Luce is Professor of Labor Studies at the School of Labor and Urban Studies and Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She's also the co-author of Practical Radicals: Seven Strategies to Change the World.

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