{"id":3361,"date":"2026-06-22T17:27:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T17:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=3361"},"modified":"2026-07-14T18:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T18:50:08","slug":"straighttalk-2026-the-ai-reckoning-a-future-we-cant-ignore-session-ii","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/event\/straighttalk-2026-the-ai-reckoning-a-future-we-cant-ignore-session-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"StraightTalk 2026 | The AI Reckoning: A Future We Can\u2019t Ignore \u2013 Session II"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Session 2:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Democracy &amp; Trust<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>AI is changing how information spreads, how people form opinions, and who citizens trust. This bipartisan conversation examines AI\u2019s impact on misinformation, elections, and civic responsibility&#8211;and what it will take to protect trust and democratic norms in an AI-driven world.<\/p>\n<p>This event is open to the public but requires tickets. Furman students, faculty, and staff may attend for free and do not need to register. This event is approved for CLP credit.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tribe-events-single-event-description tribe-events-content\">\n<h4>Presented by The Riley Institute and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Furman, in collaboration with campus partners.<\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/projects\/straighttalk-2026\/\">See full event details here.<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/straighttalk-2026-the-ai-reckoning-a-future-we-cant-ignore-tickets-1992352047607?aff=oddtdtcreator\"><strong>Purchase tickets here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Session 2:\u00a0Democracy &amp; Trust AI is changing how information spreads, how people form opinions, and who citizens trust. This bipartisan conversation examines AI\u2019s impact on misinformation, elections, and civic responsibility&#8211;and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":319,"featured_media":3359,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[126,20],"class_list":["post-3361","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-clp","tribe_events_cat-straight-talk","cat_clp","cat_straight-talk"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/3361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/319"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/3361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3838,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/3361\/revisions\/3838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3361"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=3361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}