For human history, knowledge was scarce. The internet made it abundant, and now AI is making expertise available on demand. If a chatbot can answer hard math questions or write in-depth reports, why spend years learning to do it yourself? Because learning isn't just about collecting facts. It's about judgment and pattern recognition. In a world where answers are cheap, good questions become priceless. The future belongs to those who know what to do with what they know.

Artificial intelligence is beginning to reshape documentary filmmaking, including the future of animal advocacy media. From AI-assisted editing to adaptive storytelling and personalized messaging, emerging technologies could change how advocacy films persuade audiences. This post explores the promise, risks, ethics, and communication challenges of using AI in documentaries focused on animal welfare and social change.

At the CHS AI Teaching Summit at VCU, the Media + AI Initiative served as a major sponsor, helping support a full day of faculty conversations, workshops, and student perspectives on AI in higher education. In this post, I reflect on why sponsoring events like this is a core part of our Strategic Plan—connecting classroom innovation, faculty development, and cross-campus collaboration into real practice.

AI is reshaping the future of work, and students feel it. As headlines warn of disappearing entry-level jobs, educators must respond. This post argues that success will belong to those who use AI strategically, not fear it, and calls on academia to get out of the classroom, align with industry, and prepare students to thrive alongside AI, not compete against it.

Advertising is entering a new era thanks to AI. Tools are no longer just assisting with targeting or copy generation. Increasingly, they are learning, adapting, and optimizing campaigns in real time. For advertising professionals, this raises an important question: what happens when ads are no longer static outputs, but self-improving systems? What does this mean for viewers? Advertising Has Always Been About Attention Any advertiser will tell you that advertising has always

Most people ask which AI tool to use, but the real shift is not ChatGPT vs Claude. It is about AI tools and workflows. When AI connects to file systems, browsers, and productivity apps, it moves beyond prompts into execution. This post explores agentic AI, tool-enabled workflows, and how AI is transforming media, public relations, and digital communication.

Public relations professionals are beginning to notice a shift in how audiences discover information online. When one client saw a drop in Google traffic, a deeper analysis revealed something unexpected: visitors were arriving through links from AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude. As large language models become a new interface for search, traditional SEO metrics may no longer tell the full story. Understanding what AI reads and cites may soon be essential for modern PR strateg

We spend a great deal of time talking about AI as a content generator. That is just one interesting use case. The more transformative application is infrastructure, and building workflows that help automate content generation. These tools allows us to design systems that continuously collect, structure, and surface information without daily manual intervention. Instead of reacting to information, we build pipelines that monitor it. The idea is simple. Identify something worth