Tim Tangherlini's guest appearances

Tim Tangherlini

Between Worlds

Parsing Science: The unpublished stories behind the world’s most compelling science, as told by the researchers themselves.

Marco Tempest

David Epstein

Wade Foster

Michael Bungay Stanier

Austin Grossman

Calum Chace

Charlene Li

Chris White

Dave Johnson

Temple Grandin

Cindy Gallop

Jamie Metzl

Brian Nosek

Sean Gourley

Jeremy Heimans

OwlTail

Professor Tim Tangherlini calls himself a computational folklorist. Like many fields of research lately, folklore is a field where both the tools and objects of study are being profoundly reimagined by AI. I came across Professor Tangherlini's work after reading a research paper that he and his team published on using AI to study the structure and dissemination of conspiracy theories. Their research points the way to strategies that might defeat fake news by explaining how the elements of a conspiracy narrative come together and how they can also quickly fragment if some key parts are removed or challenged.

Using AI in the war against fake news with Tim Tangherlini

Tim Tangherlini discusses his research into how conspiracy theorists interpret and use what they believe is “hidden knowledge” to connect multiple human interactions that are otherwise unlinked ... and how when one of these links is cut, they're less able to hold together a coherent story about it.

Picking Apart Conspiracy Theories – Tim Tangherlini