Award-winning journalists, students, professors and other experts congregated at Northeastern University’s Raytheon Amphitheater Friday to explore a dark side to artificial intelligence: deep fakes. The conference, titled “AI, Media and the Threat to Democracy,” addressed the rise of AI in the media and its role in democracy.

Trading in pitches for data sets, journalists and data lovers alike came together to trade skill sets and share tips during HUBweek’s first annual “Data Science, Journalism, and the Future of Justice”...