<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/2026/0224-meredith-broussard-visit.php" dsn="blogs"><featured/><feature_title>Featured News</feature_title><title>'It’s not magic': A conversation on AI, power, and responsibility</title><author>Madison Fahlborg</author><author_email>info@skidmore.edu</author_email><pubDate>02/24/2026 03:28:30 PM</pubDate><display>display</display><description>Artificial intelligence expert Meredith Broussard visited campus and challenged the Skidmore community to confront the ethical realities of AI.</description><category>News</category><image_listing><img src="/news/2026/images/0224-meredith-broussard-thumbnail.jpg" alt="Meredith Broussard sits at a classroom desk, smiling and gesturing with her hands as she speaks to students."/></image_listing><image><img src="/news/2026/images/0224-meredith-broussard-feature.jpg" alt="Meredith Broussard stands at a podium, smiling and gesturing with her hands as she speaks to an audience."/></image><caption>Meredith Broussard, AI scholar and professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University, delivers her lecture, “Does AI Give Good Advice?” to an engaged audience of students, faculty, and staff.</caption></item>