“AI, I argue, for now mostly constitutes a “retooling” of the news rather than a fundamental change in the needs and motives of news organizations.”
– Felix Simon
This 46-page report from Columbia University’s Tow Centre offers present and predicted impacts of AI on journalism analyzed by a scholar who has been studying them since 2019. Oxford Internet Institute doctoral researcher Felix Simon says AI will neither be a quick fix for journalism nor alone in how it shapes the industry.
Artificial Intelligence in the News: How AI Retools, Rationalizes, and Reshapes Journalism and the Public Arena | TOW CENTRE FOR DIGITAL JOURNALISM | February 6, 2024 | by Felix M. Simon