Marwan M. Kraidy, dean and CEO of Northwestern Qatar, hosts global communication scholar Andrea Medrado in conversation on the sidelines of the NU-Q Lecture on the Global South at Northwestern University in Qatar, hosted on November 5, 2025.

Professor Spencer Striker and co-host Alessandra El Chanti talk with Dr. John Gibbs, Professor at the University of Georgia, CEO of Artimatic Inc., and influential YouTube futurist “Dr. Know-It-All”, about the future of teaching creativity in the age of AI. They explore the assessment crisis in AI-assisted classrooms, the “creative paradox” of machines mimicking mastery, and which skills still matter for the next generation of designers.

This episode is produced by the Artificial Intelligence and Media Lab at Northwestern Qatar and funded by the Alumnae Award for Curriculum Innovation.

Ilhem Allagui, professor and director of the Journalism and Strategic Communication Program, and Anto Mohsin, assistant professor in the Liberal Arts Program at Northwestern University in Qatar, sit down with Mark Graham, professor of Internet Geography at the University of Oxford, to unpack the often unseen human labor behind artificial intelligence.

Graham, who leads the Fairwork Project, an action-research initiative that has driven hundreds of policy and industry changes to improve conditions for millions of workers, shares insights from his latest book, Feeding the Machine, which exposes the people and systems fueling AI’s rapid growth.

This episode is produced by Scheherazade Safla-Gaffoor, assistant professor in the Journalism and Strategic Communication Program, and edited by student producer Juyoung Kim ’26.