AI and the Future of Journalism

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Tom Wainwright is tech and media editor at The Economist. He says AI has the potential to change the cultural construct of news itself. At Reuters, they've set up a sort of AI engine which crunches data to look for patterns in huge data sets to find possible stories. And people are experimenting with other ways that AI can help with news gathering and assessing what does and doesn't make a story.

The past few years have proved tumultuous both for American consumers and for retailers selling to them. The end result is a curious slump for middle-of-the-road brands. Artificial intelligence like ChatGPT stands to disrupt everything from art to coding; we self-interestedly explore probable effects on journalism. And remembering Ranajit Guha, a historian who saw a different India by looking bottom-up.

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