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Artificial Intelligence in Journalism by Life Member Dr Ian McCahon If you enjoy tiptoeing through a wonderland of new ideas and new ways of doing something you thought was familiar, come now with other Graduate Union members into the still threatening world of artificial intelligence, and see what a global cohort of diverse underfunded overworked journalists and organisations are doing. They seek to do their work better by using new tools and developing new ways to inform us and protect us in the world as it is today. If you are not a journalist yourself you may wish to just look and learn about these developments, and to leave interaction with them to our Association, and perhaps the Centre for Advancing Journalism and to other journalists.
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Who are the prime movers and educators in this field and what are their motives? JournalismAI (JAI) is a branch of POLIS – JournalismAI's think-tank at the London School of Economics and Political Science – and this is supported by the Google News Initiative. JAI offer research reports, training materials, a network for best practice and innovation sharing and much more to journalists anywhere in the world. Their members are from almost every continent, and from many political and cultural contexts. They are building together an environment of innovation, one of efficiency and equality, of respectful collaboration by journalists and newsrooms both large and small. Among other things, they seek to draw useful information from data collected sometimes clandestinely from those who wish to bury it, to provide it to those who may benefit.
