What's the most important question right now?

How to ensure journalism survives in the AI era. I truly believe the industry as we know it is under existential threat. I think this presents an opportunity to radically change how we think about doing journalism and what its purpose is. Threat and opportunity are often intertwined. The same pressure that endangers you can also create the conditions for bold change, which has been necessary in the journalism industry for a long time.

What's one fact about AI that everyone should know?

There’s a lot of talk about an AI bubble, whether AGI will ever happen, or if any of this tech is even useful. The truth is, even if scaling laws hit a wall and progress stopped today, we’d still have years of work ahead figuring out how to use and manage the technology as it is—especially in journalism. We’d best get to work.

What future are you looking forward to?

I look forward to a future where media companies and journalists collaborate, try crazy new things, and say yes to ideas at the bleeding edge of AI, ethically, in line with their values, and on their own terms. We are at an interesting time, for better or worse. The media industry has barely begun to explore the opportunities that lie beyond LLMs and closed-source models, held back more by fear, limited time, and a lack of imagination than by what’s actually possible. There’s plenty of doom and gloom out there, but let’s not forget to have some fun along the way.