Three roles for AI in journalism: source, colleague, assistant. A framework that’s more useful than another round of newsroom culture war. (Stephen J. Adler, Columbia Journalism Review)
- AP's internal Slack erupted after a product manager told reporters "resistance is futile" on AI, with staff pushing back against what they called "AI-written slop" and a management class that "exists in a totally different reality."
- Stephen Adler, former Reuters editor in chief, proposes treating AI as source, colleague, or assistant as a framework for deciding how much oversight each use case actually needs.
- The most useful observation: AI proved reliable for critiquing structure and flow, but confidently told Adler that Pope Leo XIV does not exist and accused him of fabricating a pope to trick it.
