I’ve published plenty of pieces critical of AI and the dangers it poses. Those dangers are real and we need to develop a regulatory scheme to contain them as quickly as possible.
But there is a lot of good that can come from creatively using AI in all fields, including journalism, as a report from Nieman Labs documents.
Several of this year’s Pulitzer Prize winners used AI in their projects, not for writing but as a powerful research tool.
According to the report, here is a summary of some of those projects:
A visualization of Elon Musk’s political reinvention.
A genealogical investigation that hinged on land grants from the mid-1800s.
A visual forensics analysis that disproved the Israeli military’s narrative about killing two journalists.
A years-long probe that produced a new database of people killed in the U.S. by police officers who used “less-lethal force.”
“At this early juncture, we see responsible AI use as a significant component in the increasingly versatile toolkit utilized by today’s working journalists,” said Marjorie Miller, the administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes.
None of this is to minimize the risks, as I noted above, but it’s worth recognizing the positive potential this awe-inspiring technology offers as well.
Thanks to John Alderman for pointing me to the Nieman article.
To contact your Congressional representatives about regulating AI, click on these links for your contact information in the House or the Senate.
See also “Guardrails for AI.”
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