Nirit Weiss-Blatt

Nirit Weiss-Blatt is a communication researcher and author who writes the AI Panic newsletter on Substack, where she tracks artificial intelligence hype and fear narratives. She is a former research fellow at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and the author of the academic book The TECHLASH and Tech Crisis Communication. She is best known for her research on tech discourse and media framing of emerging technologies, and contributes analysis to Techdirt.