Bonus: How Should Newsrooms Approach AI?

We’ve written about how educators and local institutions are grappling with artificial intelligence. 

The Voice of San Diego team is embarking on an ambitious pursuit: Developing a public policy for how AI should and shouldn’t be used in our newsroom. And we’re bringing our listeners along for the ride.

This week, we published an unfiltered conversation where VOSD Podcast co-hosts Scott Lewis, Andrea Sanchez-Villafaña, Jakob McWhinney, Will Huntsberry and Bella Ross grapple with our concerns surrounding this new technology, and how we may consider using it to deliver more, better journalism. 

For instance, should Voice journalists be using AI to help with data-crunching or other tasks? If we do, how should we disclose that to you, lovely reader?

What is the bar for such a disclaimer? Are certain kinds of writing more sacred than others? We hope to answer these questions over the course of a few episodes — with your help.

We encourage listeners to share your thoughts about all of this as we continue to work on a policy that is both ethical and forward-thinking.

Please email Scott@VOSD.org to weigh in before our next episode.

Lisa Halverstadt contributed to this post.

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