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Cooper Townsend

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Cooper Townsend is a student intern with the Alabama Public Radio newsroom. He is a Senior Majoring in News media and has a Minor in Theater. He produced a feature on a fundraiser for research into Huntington’s Disease featuring the board game Heroclix. He’s currently researching an angle into the economic impact of what’s known as “AI collapse” in Alabama.

  • It’s hard to turn on the radio or read a newspaper and not hear about artificial intelligence. The computer driven technology generates data that can be mistaken for something done by a human being. Another concern is if AI were to suddenly go away. APR took a look into one way that might happen