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AI will start fact checking. We may not like the results.

I contributed to NiemanLab’s 2023 series of predictions on the future of journalism.

 Fake and misleading stories might still circulate because bad actors would have the resources to engineer ways around the automated tools. Reporters, on the other hand, might find their work blocked as investigations and enterprise reporting lack the precedent in the AI’s model to appear “true.”

But it doesn’t need to be that way.

Journalists can engage with the technologists who are working in this space to improve — and direct — their work. As an industry we can wrestle with the ethics of letting machines audit and improve our reporting. We can be open to the disruptive power of artificial intelligence at all points in our value chain, instead of closing ourselves off and assuming the future will look just like today.

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Better paywalls won’t save us from what’s coming

I contributed to NiemanLab’s 2022 series of predictions on the future of journalism.

In 2022, emerging technologies will change how users find and consume the news. The confluence of new search algorithms based on natural language models and consumer adoption of wearable devices will challenge the stability of the reader revenue models we’ve worked so hard to build over the past few years. 

Whether the coming inflection point represents an existential threat or an opportunity for growth depends on how we, as an industry, respond.

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