The publisher of The
New York Times recently made an extraordinary
speech about AI, journalism, and the public square that’s
received surprisingly little public reaction. What makes A.G. Sulzberger’s
speech extraordinary is that it was unabashedly crusading, and crusading is a
stance New York Times publishers have rarely if ever adopted over the
newspaper’s 175-year history. What makes the scant reaction surprising is that
the speech’s audience—…