Category: Technology trends

  • How artificial intelligence is changing the news business

    For journalists, the rise of AI is creating new challenges, particularly around trust with readers, viewers and listeners. You can’t get very far into a conversation with journalists and journalism educators before artificial intelligence starts to dominate the discussion. I found myself in that conversation over dinner recently, and I asked the working editors at…

  • The ethics of using AI in newsrooms: A work in progress

    The ethics of using AI in newsrooms: A work in progress

    News organizations are grappling with how to use AI responsibly while preserving public trust. We are still at the beginning of the artificial intelligence revolution, and the public is looking for clear guidance on how newsrooms are using AI to report the news. But the reality is that most news organizations are still developing their…

  • ChatGPT is an impressive artificial intelligence application, but it’s often misleading and fact-challenged

    ChatGPT is an impressive artificial intelligence application, but it’s often misleading and fact-challenged

    There’s currently a frenzy over the artificial intelligence application ChatGPT and whether it will create a new generation of plagiarists and increase the amount of misinformation going around the internet. I decided to test the application over the past several weeks, and I’ve been impressed with its ability to quickly create papers on just about…