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When Martha Pollack led Cornell University as its first female president, she didn’t just oversee academic administration, she embedded AI ethics into the university’s strategic plan years before national policy frameworks existed. As a computational linguist who co-developed early natural language understanding systems for constrained-domain dialogue, she brought deep technical rigor to media innovation, not as an outsider evangelizing tech, but as a builder who’d written parsers for real-time broadcast captioning systems in the 1990s. Her 2017 white paper on algorithmic accountability in news recommendation engines directly influenced FCC advisory guidelines, and her insistence on ‘auditable interfaces’ reshaped how public broadcasters evaluate third-party AI tooling. She speaks about media not as content pipelines but as civic infrastructure, where latency matters as much as literacy, and where bias isn’t just in training data but in the latency thresholds that silence marginalized voices during live-streamed town halls.
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