In a 20+ year career spanning journalism, documentary filmmaking, and entrepreneurship, Centre College alumnus and University of Alaska Atwood Chair of Journalism Brad Hillwig (’01) has seen storytelling rapidly transform from analog to digital and now the age of artificial intelligence.
As AI reshapes how we create and consume media, Hillwig explores what remains timelessly human and essential about the craft of storytelling. Through examples from his own award-winning work and the broader media landscape, he examines the delicate balance between technology and human creativity while asking: What is the role of the storyteller in the age of AI? This talk invites audiences to consider how we might coexist with and harness new technologies to serve our most uniquely human quality–the need to create, live, share and interpret our world through the power of story.