{"id":2664,"date":"2025-07-17T22:10:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T22:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ci.acm.org\/2025\/?page_id=2664"},"modified":"2025-07-18T21:02:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T21:02:06","slug":"deb-roy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ci.acm.org\/2025\/speakers\/deb-roy\/","title":{"rendered":"Deb Roy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"810\" height=\"810\" data-src=\"https:\/\/ci.acm.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Instagram-post-47.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2663 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/ci.acm.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Instagram-post-47.png 810w, https:\/\/ci.acm.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Instagram-post-47-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/ci.acm.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Instagram-post-47-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/ci.acm.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Instagram-post-47-768x768.png 768w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 810px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 810\/810;\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<h3>Building Civic Infrastructure for the Age of AI<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<strong>Deb Roy<br><\/strong>Professor, Media Arts and Sciences at MIT<br>Director, MIT Center for Constructive Communication\n\n\n\nDeb Roy is professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT where he directs the MIT Center for Constructive Communication (CCC). He leads research in designing human-AI systems that foster dialogue, listening, and deliberation in ways that build civic muscle. Roy is also co-founder and unpaid CEO of Cortico, a closely affiliated nonprofit collaborator of CCC that develops, operates and supports a conversation platform designed to surface underheard voices and perspectives and create scalable dialogue networks. Roy serves on the board of the Knight First Amendment Institute, the FRONTLINE advisory council, and is a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet &amp; Society at Harvard University.\n\n\n\n<strong>Learn more<\/strong><br>Website: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccc.mit.edu\/person\/deb-roy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#41649c\" class=\"has-inline-color\">https:\/\/www.ccc.mit.edu\/person\/deb-roy\/<\/mark><\/a><br>Center for Constructive Communication: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccc.mit.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#41649c\" class=\"has-inline-color\">https:\/\/www.ccc.mit.edu\/<\/mark><\/a><br>Cortico: <a href=\"https:\/\/cortico.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#41649c\" class=\"has-inline-color\">https:\/\/cortico.ai\/<\/mark><\/a><a href=\"Website: https:\/\/www.ccc.mit.edu\/person\/deb-roy\/\"><br><\/a><br><strong>Read these<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1pNxhd0l1pHlmwnktK7elAI7h9pmCSlIx\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#41649c\" class=\"has-inline-color\">The Internet Could Be So Good. Really.<\/mark><\/a> by Deb Roy, The Atlantic, Oct 2023.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5ea874746663b45e14a384a4\/t\/6824e8902170402177ae89b0\/1747249297047\/Conversation+Networks.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#41649c\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Conversation Networks<\/mark><\/a> by Deb Roy, Lawrence Lessig, and Audrey Tang.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1icQCowvqADt7s1EjGMPTWI4Xfb-xAyA3\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#41649c\" class=\"has-inline-color\">How to Tackle Truth Decay<\/mark><\/a> by Deb Roy, The Atlantic, 2024.\n\n\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2137,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2664","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ci.acm.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ci.acm.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ci.acm.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ci.acm.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ci.acm.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2664"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ci.acm.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2781,"href":"https:\/\/ci.acm.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2664\/revisions\/2781"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ci.acm.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ci.acm.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}