International Journalism Festival: Investigating AI Systems in Your Community

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The workshop will be held in-person at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy. The session will also be live-streamed. Watch the livestream here.

Whether we see it or not, our governments, doctors, schools, and employers have used AI and other predictive technologies for years to make policy decisions, understand disease, teach our children, or monitor our work. The hype around generative AI (GenAI) is now supercharging the spread of these tools. As journalists, the onus is on us to reveal, interrogate, and explain this technology's rapid and widespread integration. Where is AI being used? Where is it working or breaking? Who is being harmed, and who stands to profit? How can our audiences make sense of what it all means for them?

In this workshop, pioneer AI reporter Karen Hao will equip journalists on any beat with the knowledge and skills to cover and shape the coverage of AI and its profound impact on society. This is not a training on how to use AI in the newsroom.

On April 11, 2025, Hao will also join the session "After the Hype: What Are the Key Trends in Journalism and AI?" with Gina Chua (Semafor), Ezra Eeman (NPO), and Charlie Beckett (London School of Economics). This discussion will seek to identify the key trends, positive and negative, of generative AI. It will explore how GenAI is reshaping the way news is created and consumed and how news organizations and individual journalists should respond.