This research cluster aims to investigate how journalism will have to deal with the imminent impact of what has been called robot or algorithmic journalism. What does it mean to be a journalist when your stories are written by a machine? In this context, this research group is interested in the possible AI applications in journalism, such as robot journalism, personalized headlines, and AI as a source of collecting information, while at the same time preventing disinformation. Artificial intelligence systems have the potential to transform the rhythms and dynamics of news production. By gathering, analysing, and processing data following the commands of an algorithm, AI tools allow for a greater level of automation in the press. The cluster wants to explore questions such as: Would the introduction of AI technologies into the newsroom translate into freeing journalists from daily and repetitive tasks, or would it lead to laying off staff that is now perceived as unnecessary by the newsrooms’ executives? Within this theme, the researchers focus on two concrete streams of applications of AI in particular:
- Using AI to deal with misinformation
- Value-sensitive recommender design
