This talk walks through my existential crisis engaging with AI. I left Google because I didn't believe nor respected the direction we were taking with Gemini, especially as a former fact-checker. I co-founded Indicator to cover digital deception and have repeatedly documented how AI has made it easier to harass people at scale and pump out sloppy engagement-bait. But over the past few months, I have found that Claude Code is a tool I can trust to have a transformative effect on my data collection, analysis, and representation. I'll walk through some (basic) examples of how my work has changed over the past year and lay out some open questions that my co-founder Craig Silverman and I are navigating as we build our AI policy.
