I think there’s a role for AI in news media. First, you still need reporters to gather information. AI can be used to speed up the final phase of writing and ed

I think there’s a role for AI in news media. First, you still need reporters to gather information. AI can be used to speed up the final phase of writing and editing. Second, AI can provide background and context to current events. For example, a story about Israel entering Rafah is a snapshot in time. But a reader might ask historical questions: “Who controlled Gaza before Israel became a country?”. Third, combine both features above. AI can generate stories from short updates to magazine features depending on my interest. I don’t care about Trump’s trials, so give me a quick update. I am interested in China’s real estate collapse, so generate a deeper story. All this comes from reporters’ research, most of which isn’t used because editors have allotted them a fixed space. Of course, this requires better AIs that don’t hallucinate. It needs to be able to update info, and even handle non-monotonic reasoning (an earlier report was mistaken, the latest report updates info). The news has 2 parts: facts and analysis. In most cases I don’t care what the reporter thinks. Semafor.com has an interesting style of clearly saying these are the facts and here’s what the reporter thinks. An AI can deliver the facts, while leaving reporters to write a separate analysis (which I can easily skip).