Luncheon — Beyond Hype & Alarmism: Elevating AI Coverage in the Newsroom

Thursday, September 19, 2024

1:15 PM – 2:15 PM EDT

Location: Baker (LL3)

This luncheon is hosted by

How should journalists and newsrooms prepare for and confront the current avalanche of AI proliferation and adoption? We should do what we do best: cover the story. Over the next two years, the Pulitzer Center is running the AI Spotlight Series, a program to train journalists around the world on AI—both the technology and the industry—to understand the powerful forces at play shaping this current moment and how to hold them accountable. Join us for a lively, wide-ranging discussion hosted by the MacArthur Foundation's Technology in the Public Interest program about what AI is, how to cut through the hype, and how to illuminate its impacts on society through richly reported human stories. We will also touch on something on everyone's mind: how AI is impacting our own industry, how to responsibly use this technology, and whether your newsroom should have an AI strategy.

This limited-capacity event is full and is not accepting additional RSVPs.

Moderator(s)

Garance Burke (she/her/hers)

Global Investigative Journalist
The Associated Press
San Francisco, California, United States

Speaker(s)

VB

Varsha Bansal

Tech Reporter; Knight-Bagehot Fellow 2024-25, Columbia University; 2022 AI Accountability Fellow, Pulitzer Center
Independent
Lam Thuy Vo (she/her/hers)

Investigative Reporter / Associate Professor
Documented / Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY
Gideon Lichfield (he/him/his)

Journalist and former editor-in-chief of WIRED and MIT Technology Review
Independent