US EditionHave journalists skipped the ethics conversation when it comes to using AI?
- Canadian journalists have increasingly used artificial intelligence tools across newsrooms from July 2022 to July 2023, covering tasks like transcription and writing reports.
- This adoption followed rapid technological advances but occurred amid a lack of clear ethical guidelines or a unified rule book for using AI in journalism.
- Conversations with a group of journalists working in multiple Canadian media outlets revealed varying levels of understanding about AI, unclear practices regarding transparency of AI usage, and a reliance on individual ethical judgment in decision-making.
- An editor emphasized that a key priority is ensuring editors retain the power to override decisions made by AI systems, though transparency about AI use in newsrooms remains inconsistent.
- This disconnect between experimentation and ethics has raised audience trust concerns, prompting calls for urgent conversations to improve transparency and rebuild public confidence.
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Have journalists skipped the ethics conversation when it comes to using AI?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is being used in journalistic work for everything from transcribing interviews and translating articles to writing and publishing local weather, economic reports and water quality stories.
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