2026-06-09
1 小时 31 分钟Welcome to the LSE Events podcast by the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Get ready to hear from some of the most influential international figures in the social sciences.
Okay, good evening, everyone.
I think we'll start.
My name is Professor David Hovel.
I'm a professor of Public International Law at the LSE Law School.
We are here today to discuss Don Herzog's recent book, Reading Wars, from LSE Press.
Now, I've spent today, we've all had busy days,
but I've been at our law school away day with our whole department, with my colleagues from the law department.
And one of our discussions was what skills were most important for us to teach our students in a world of AI.
Now, the answer that came back when we were put into tables was remarkably old fashioned, reading and writing.
And it's a disconcertingly good moment then to be launching a book called Reading Wars.
Because outside my own day in law school, reading wars are of course everywhere.
Children are being kept off social media for their own good.
Lawyers are being sanctioned for citing cases that AI appears to have invented for them.
Deep fakes circulate on X, inviting us to read images as evidence when they're nothing of the kind.
Rumours travel through platforms like Truth Social with the peculiar force that repetition lends to falsehood.
And for those of you who are on social media, the hashtag for today's event is hashtag LSE events.
So governments, regulators, universities and platforms are all asking with varying degrees of wisdom and panic.
Who may read?