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edu). This course will prepare students to report on how AI and algorithmic systems shape social life, institutional decision-making, and power relations, treating these AI systems as institutions in themselves that require investigation rather than as neutral technologies. Through a mixof conceptual modules and hands-on reporting exercises, students willlearnto investigate these technologies using interviews, documents, dataand policy analysis. Students will be better prepared to cover AI-related institutions as a core part of contemporary public interest through reporting.