How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Our World

Join author Tony Silvia as he discusses how AI is changing our world and is been integrated in medicine, music and the arts. Tony Silvia is Professor Emeritus of Journalism and Digital Communication at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. His professional background is in television news, having worked as a consumer reporter and news anchor at various television stations in local markets, and as a correspondent for CNN, based in Atlanta.

He has covered stories at the U.S. Supreme Court, Congress, and the White House. Tony has been honored with three Emmy Award nominations, an Associated Press Award for best documentary, has authored dozens of articles in academic and industry journals, and, to date, ten books. 

These include Student Television in America: Channels of Change (1998), Global News: Perspectives on the Information Age (2001), Baseball Over the Air: The National Pastime on the Radio and in the Imagination (2007), Baseball’s Father and Son Broadcasters, (2009), Power Performance: Multimedia Storytelling for Journalism and Public Relations (2011), Robert Pierpoint: A Life at CBS News (2014), Dyslexia and the Journalist: Battling a Silent Disability (2021), Journalism And the Pandemic: Essays on Changes and Challenges (2022), Artificial Intelligence in Journalism: Changing the News (2025), and the forthcoming A History of True Crime Storytelling: 50+ Years From Print to TV to Podcasts (2026).