Podcast: How AI will Impact the News with Noah Giansiracusa

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3 min readJun 18, 2024

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In this episode, Professor Noah Giansiracusa, tenured associate professor of mathematics and data science at Bentley University and author of How Algorithms Create and Prevent Fake News (2021), joins us to discuss a topic that touches all of us, AI’s impact on the news.

Over this wide-ranging discussion, Noah Giansiracusa delves into the benefits and drawbacks of AI as it relates to the creation and dissemination of news. He’ll explore the economic pressures on newsrooms and how AI might provide cost-effective solutions, while also examining the challenges of ensuring factual accuracy in an AI-powered news landscape.

He’ll also touch on how journalists and newsrooms can equip themselves for success in this new environment with an overview of the types of skills that will be needed and the steps newsrooms can take to adapt.

Finally, he’ll explore the role of AI in the proliferation of misinformation and the creation of echo chambers and filter bubbles, as well as potential solutions to these issues and the steps people, organizations, and governments are already taking to address them.

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