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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Commun.
Sec. Media Governance and the Public Sphere
Volume 9 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fcomm.2024.1465178
This article is part of the Research Topic The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Media, Journalists, and Audiences View all 5 articles

Ethics and Journalistic Challenges in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Talking with Professionals and Experts

Provisionally accepted
Beatriz Gutiérrez-Caneda Beatriz Gutiérrez-Caneda 1*Carl-Gustav Lindén Carl-Gustav Lindén 2Jorge Vázquez-Herrero Jorge Vázquez-Herrero 1
  • 1 University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
  • 2 University of Bergen, Bergen, Hordaland, Norway

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    The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) is substantially transforming media industry, automating mechanical processes and saving time. This set of technologies has been used in different areas like data analysis, automated writing, format transformations, content personalization and fact-checking. AI integration influences work routines, the professional roles of journalists, the relationship with the audience and final products in journalism, offering new opportunities but also arising ethical concerns. These challenges are related to different topics such as data privacy, algorithmic biases, the lack of transparency of used models, and possible job losses, among others. Media outlets and other organizations are creating practical guidelines to help newsrooms navigate AI integration from an ethical perspective, however, these technologies evolves faster than the regulation and the future of journalism is unsure. This paper aims to shed some light through conversations with professionals and researchers in the field, drawing the lines for ethical and responsible AI integration in newsrooms.

    Keywords: AI1, AI Journalism2, ethics3, AI guidelines4, Algorithmic Journalism5

    Received: 15 Jul 2024; Accepted: 14 Oct 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Gutiérrez-Caneda, Lindén and Vázquez-Herrero. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Beatriz Gutiérrez-Caneda, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

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