What Can Journalists Do That AI Can't?

AI technologies have the potential to profoundly change how journalism is produced and consumed. Newsrooms are now experimenting with machine learning to generate news and information on current affairs, health, real estate listings, quizzes, and sporting events. New advances have increased the speed at which large data work can be completed, and the scope of work that artificial intelligence can undertake. As AI and machine learning take their place in the newsroom, what are the editorial and ethical responsibilities for adopting these new technologies?

The virtual discussion featured Aimee Rinehart, Program Manager for the Associated Press Local News AI Initiative, Hamilton Nolan, Labour Reporting Fellow for In These Times,  Gina Chua of Semafor, and Patrick White,  Director of the journalism program at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM). Felix M. Simon, of the Oxford Internet Institute moderated.