The future of journalism in the age of AI: Eight predictions...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has already entered journalism. John Micklethwait, editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News, says Bloomberg has begun experimenting with AI-generated summaries for longer stories on the Bloomberg Terminal over the past month. The software reads articles and distils them into three succinct bullet points, helping readers to grasp the information quickly. "Out of the 5,000 stories we produce every day, there is some form of automation in more than a third of them," says Micklethwait. With such wide use of technology, "our newsroom at Bloomberg is quite a good laboratory to look for clues as to how this [AI] revolution might progress," he says, making eight predictions about how AI will shape journalism. AI is poised to transform how journalists work, but it won't make them obsolete. Consider Bloomberg's approach to covering corporate earnings. In the past, a dedica...