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Concurrent Session 1: Pulitzer Center: Reporting AI from Southeast Asia

  • Nov 13, 2026 10:40AM–12:10PM

  • Room 105 (Maha Chulalongkorn Building)

First round of concurrent sessions

Format: Talk

Speaker: Karol Ilagan

How can journalists investigate AI not simply as a technology story, but as a question of labor, power, and accountability? Building on the Pulitzer Center’s AI Spotlight training for Thai journalists, this session brings reporting from across Southeast Asia into conversation with Solidarity AI. Karol Ilagan draws on her investigations of the Philippines’ AI boom, including platform work and opaque algorithmic management, alongside Pulitzer-supported reporting from Indonesia and Malaysia. The session asks what journalists need in order to scrutinize AI systems, trace who benefits and who bears the risks, and make the social and economic infrastructures behind AI visible to wider publics.

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Reporter 1: Karol Ilagan
Reporter 2:

Speakers

  • Karol Ilagan Journalism professor and investigative editor University of the Philippines Diliman; Pulitzer Center

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