By James Ball, this article was first published by the Ethical Journalism Network
There are two paths ahead in the future of journalism, and both of them are shaped by artificial intelligence.
Robot, courtesy of Ethical Journalism Network
The first is a future in which newsrooms and their reporters are robust: thanks to the use of artificial intelligence, high-quality reporting has been enhanced. Not only do AI scripts manage the writing of simple day-to-day articles such as companies’ quarterly earnings updates, they also monitor and track masses of data for outliers, flagging these to human reporters to investigate.
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