# Professor Robert Seamans is quoted in a feature story about the negative stories surrounding tech in 2017

1 Faculty News December 26, 2017 ![CBC logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030877.jpg?itok=hGNV0pzL)>

Excerpt from [CBC News](http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/tech-2017-negative-effects-fake-news-1.4463340) -- "For AI expert [Robert Seamans](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/robert-seamans), of New York University, the story that shaped 2017 was 'the evidence that Russia hacked the 2016 \[U.S.\] presidential elections.'"

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