//…At the beginning of every academic year, there is a steady stream of scam warnings: be careful with suspicious links, fraudulent calls, fake payment requests, manipulated identities, messages that sound urgent and plausible enough to make you double-check.
Verification is often offered as the necessary solution to these questions, but it is insufficient. If civic life is reduced to an endless cycle of detection, correction, and response, then public trust becomes permanently defensive. We stop asking what kinds of relations technology should make possible, and instead settle for damage control.
What would it mean to think differently? At the Digital Narratives Studio, which I direct, we begin with a modest but important shift: moving from asking how AI can improve civic services to asking what kinds of civic relations those services should sustain. Efficiency and safety are necessary, but so are hesitation, explanation, and the possibility of remaining answerable to one another, even when our encounters are increasingly shaped by synthetic systems.//
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