PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Meredith Broussard

Meredith Broussard is a journalism professor at New York University whose research covers investigative reporting with and about artificial intelligence, along with AI ethics. After editing two anthologies and teaching writing at the University of Pennsylvania, she presented the Story Discovery Engine, AI software built on the expert-system idea, at a 2014 journalism symposium while an assistant professor at Temple University. In 2016, as an assistant professor at NYU, she launched Bailiwick, an AI tool that helps journalists find story ideas in federal campaign finance data. Her 2018 book Artificial Unintelligence coined the term "technochauvinism," and More than a Glitch, her 2023 book on race, gender and ability bias in tech, won getAbstract's Business Impact Award. She appeared in the 2020 documentary Coded Bias and also serves as research director of the NYU Alliance for Public Interest Technology.

Works
42
Citations
1,408
h-index
11

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 22 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 2003–2013

    Anthologies and teaching at Penn

    With a BA from Harvard and an MFA from Columbia, she edits two anthologies of true stories about love gone wrong: The Dictionary of Failed Relationships in 2003 and The Encyclopedia of Exes in 2005. From 2009 to 2013, she teaches creative nonfiction writing at the University of Pennsylvania.

  2. 2014

    The Story Discovery Engine

    As an assistant professor at Temple University, she presents The Story Discovery Engine at the 2014 Computation + Journalism symposium at Columbia University. Built on the AI concept of an expert system, the software helps her investigate textbook shortages in Philadelphia public schools.

  3. By 2016

    Assistant professor at NYU

    By February 2016, she is an assistant professor at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and a research fellow at Columbia University's Tow Center for Digital Journalism. A former features editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer, she has also worked as a software developer at AT&T Bell Labs and the MIT Media Lab.

  4. 2016

    Bailiwick for campaign finance

    In 2016, she launches campaign-finance.org, an artificial intelligence tool nicknamed Bailiwick that helps journalists find story ideas in Federal Election Commission data. It covers more than 4,000 federal candidates and 17,000 political committees, and a grant from Columbia's Tow Center for Digital Journalism supports its development.

  5. 2018

    Artificial Unintelligence

    In April 2018, MIT Press publishes her book Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World, which examines the limits of technology in solving social problems. In it, she coins the term "technochauvinism" for the belief that technology can solve any problem.

  6. 2019–2020

    Coded Bias and a Reynolds fellowship

    A 2019 Reynolds Journalism Institute Fellow, she also coauthors "Artificial Intelligence and Journalism" in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly in July 2019 with Nicholas Diakopoulos, Rediet Abebe and three other researchers. She appears in the 2020 documentary Coded Bias, an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival that is nominated for an Emmy Award and an NAACP Image Award.

  7. 2023

    More than a Glitch

    MIT Press publishes More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech in March 2023. For one chapter, she runs her own mammograms through an open-source AI to test whether it detects her breast cancer. In October 2023, the book wins the Business Impact Award of the getAbstract International Book Award.

  8. As of October 2026

    Professor at NYU

    She is a professor at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and research director at the NYU Alliance for Public Interest Technology. Her research covers investigative reporting with and about artificial intelligence, along with AI ethics. In March 2025, she publishes "Auditing Algorithmic Medical Systems to Uncover AI Harms and Remedy Racial Injustice."

Career

  1. Since 2015New York UniversityAssistant Professor
  2. 2014Temple UniversityAssistant Professor
  3. 2009–2013University of PennsylvaniaInstructor
  4. Columbia UniversityResearch Fellow
  5. The Philadelphia InquirerFeatures Editor
  6. Bell LabsSoftware Developer
  7. Massachusetts Institute of TechnologySoftware Developer

Education

  1. Harvard UniversityBA
  2. Columbia UniversityMFA

From the biography and OpenAlex affiliations (the years of papers that list the organization), so some years are approximate.

Most-cited works

  1. Artificial Unintelligence2018 · The MIT Press eBooks · 564 citations
  2. Artificial Intelligence and Journalism2019 · Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly · 364 citationsWith Rediet Abebe
  3. More than a Glitch2023 · The MIT Press eBooks · 170 citations
  4. Artificial Intelligence for Investigative Reporting2014 · Digital Journalism · 84 citations
  5. How to Investigate an Algorithm2023 · Issues in Science and Technology · 25 citations

From OpenAlex, as of 21 October 2026.

Videos

YouTube videos in which Meredith Broussard speaks or appears, newest first. A model chose them from YouTube search results. List updated 20 October 2026.

  1. Building Public Interest Technology with Meredith Broussard - 552The TWIML AI Podcast with Sam Charrington · 13 January 2022 · 32 min

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  1. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labsIncludes New York University. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labs. We compare publishing careers, recent citations, dual appointments and job moves across 2,420 university researchers and 308 frontier-lab researchers.
  2. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other universityIncludes New York University. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other university. We compare doctorate and 5+ year employment links, career timing and current workplaces for 187 major-prize and 1,111 best-paper winners.
  3. Companies supply the most prior-work hires at 7 of the 9 frontier AI labsIncludes New York University. Our estimates of the organizations where 550 people worked directly before joining 9 frontier AI labs across 620 career transitions, comparing the main feeder organizations per lab.
  4. 20% of people at companies who shape AI also hold a university role, led by Google and Stanford UniversityIncludes New York University. We estimate that 539 of the 6,766 people with a known current organization (8%) hold both a university role and a company role, including 20% of people at companies and 13% of people at universities.

Colleagues

People named in this biography, and people with dated positions at the same organization in the same years.

Sources and credits

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  1. Meredith Broussard - Department of English, University of Pennsylvania english.upenn.edu. Checked 20 October 2026.
  2. Algorithms & Data-driven Storytelling Panel at the Computation + Journalism Symposium at Columbia – MIT Center for Civic Media civic.mit.edu. Checked 20 October 2026.
  3. Artificial Intelligence for Investigative Reporting | The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs belfercenter.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  4. This new tool allows you to easily visualize 2016 campaign finance data themonkeycage.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  5. Campaign finance tracker simplifies funding data | StateScoop statescoop.com. Checked 20 October 2026.
  6. Meredith Broussard - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  7. An AI Diagnosed Her with Breast Cancer. Then She Ran an Experiment to See How Accurate It Was – The Markup themarkup.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  8. Meredith Broussard — Center for Critical Race + Digital Studies criticalracedigitalstudies.com. Checked 20 October 2026.
  9. About - Meredith Broussard meredithbroussard.com. Checked 20 October 2026.
  10. getAbstract Announces Final Winners for Its 2023 International Book Award Business Impact and Learning Impact Categories journal.getabstract.com. Checked 20 October 2026.
  11. Meredith Broussard - NYU Journalism journalism.nyu.edu. Checked 20 October 2026.