AI Reports · MIT · 2026-10-13 · Blog / commentary
Q&A: Building accountability behind our words — and AI’s — in civic conversations
Deb Roy, MIT professor of media arts and sciences and director of the Center for Constructive Communication, calls for renewed emphasis on responsibility in civic communication. Roy argues that even when AI is used to craft text, there must be accountability and “answerability.” The excerpt notes that AI can produce realistic-seeming public comments that are harder to dismiss as fabrications with no person behind them.