What opportunities and challenges does Data and AI-driven development pose for journalism and the media industry? This new report on AI in the media sector from the innovation program Media & democracy seeks answers from international research and unsuspecting innovative key people.
The focus of the report is data-driven development and artificial intelligence. This is partly based on AI's broad and rapid growth as a social phenomenon. The other part is specifically based on the media sector.
The authors are Anders Thoresson, Project Manager for the project Media Industry and AI and Jenny Wiik, media researcher at Medier & demokrati and AI Innovation of Sweden.
- I hope the report is both easy to grasp and valuable. I think it's an important contribution that captures the fundamental effects of digitalisation and presents more pointed reasoning and findings, says Martin Holmberg, Programme Manager at Medier & demokrati.
In the introductory chapter, Anders Thoresson welcomes the reader to the third decade of the IT boom. The next four sections contain interviews with people who work in AI development, not least related to the media industry: