AI and public broadcasting

We keep hearing that AI is going to transform everything from our work to our institutions and democracies - and nowhere more dramatically than in the industries built on knowledge: academia, journalism and publishing, amongst others.

Five years ago, that might have sounded like tech evangelism. Now, the race is well and truly on to build the biggest, fastest, most powerful large language models. And here at the CMT, we’ve watched newsrooms move from fear and hesitation to testing, experimenting and embedding AI into their workflows.

What would a society look like if our information flows were fully mediated by AI? And is that future already emerging? If journalism’s business model is being weakened by the very technologies that feed on its work, what happens next? What will AI systems rely on for credible, verified information and how will journalism adapt?

In this month’s episode of Double Take, we bring you a keynote address from ABC Chair Kim Williams who opened our industry event last year on AI and Journalism. Here's his take on the matter:

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