Assistant Professor @ the University of Washington iSchool | formerly an Innovator in Residence @ Library of Congress | essays in WIRED, Gawker, The New Republic, Longreads, Current Affairs, etc.
🌐 www.bcglee.com
Ben Lee
Our faculty are leading in the classroom, the lab and beyond – and we want to bolster support for this vital work. Make your gift today for #HuskyGivingDay to support faculty teaching, research and student mentorship: bit.ly/ischoolHGD26
We are grateful to the Mandel Center at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; UCLA's AI and Cultural Heritage Lab; and iSchool, Stroum Center for Jewish Studies, Simpson Center for the Humanities, and CALMA at the University of Washington for co-sponsoring the workshop & symposium!
Very excited to share that my @longreads.com essay, "Uncanny Testimony," received the 2026 American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) Writing Award in the Technology category! Enormously grateful to the judges for selecting my essay!
longreads.com/2025/09/25/a...
@rjainrjain.bsky.social's Gates Cambridge Scholarship is such exciting news and so well-deserved! Can't wait to hear what the year at Cambridge brings!
grad.uw.edu/rijul-jain/
University of Washington Information School
Last May, @toddpresner.bsky.social, Robert Ehrenreich, and I convened a symposium at @ischool.uw.edu to explore "AI and the Future of Holocaust Research & Memory." Our resulting white paper is now officially online and contains provocations, reflections, and refusals:
doi.org/10.6069/cx72...
I’m thrilled to have an essay in the latest print issue of the Bennington Review! It’s about my year working at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the convergence of collective and inherited memory. Enormously grateful that the editors selected it!
bcgl.substack.com/p/new-essay-...
Calling all technologists, artists and other creative visionaries:
The Library of Congress has opened the call for the next Innovator in Residence!
Apply by 2pm ET April 10
newsroom.loc.gov/news/library...
Ben Lee
Contributions include: "Holocaust Memory and the Death of Web Search," "The Dangers of Holocaust Vibe," "Generative AI and Authenticity," "Post-Representation," "Responsible Stewardship," "AI in the Loop," "Sorting AI Out: Refusals & Futures," and "Forgetting"
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Our new class aims to help students across the University of Washington gain a broader, better understanding of AI.
Assistant Professor Ben Lee @bcgl.bsky.social has been teaching Informatics 110 as part of an effort to build robust AI literacy for all students. ischool.uw.edu/news/2026/02...
Josh Hadro
The plenary videos from the CNI meeting are now available:
🤝Shaping CNI’s Future Together
📚A Landscape of AI in Libraries @bcgl.bsky.social
🏆AUPresses Stand UP Award
@brettbobley.bsky.social @aupresses.bsky.social
💰The State of Funding for US Higher Ed, Science, and Technology in a Time of Change
