Artificial Intelligence: Practice and Implications for Journalism

The Tow Center for Digital Journalism, based at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, provides journalists with the skills and knowledge to lead the future of digital journalism, and serves as a research and development center for the profession as a whole. towcenter@columbia.edu.The David and Helen Gurley Brown Instituteis a collaboration between Columbia University and Stanford University, designed to encourage and support new endeavors in media innovation. At Stanford, the primary focus is on media technology, and the Institute is anchored in the School of Engineering. At Columbia, the primary focus is on content, and the Institute is anchored in the Graduate School of Journalism. browninstitute@columbia.edu.

The Tow Center for Digital Journalism &  Brown Institute for Media Innovation

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We have witnessed the first wave of artificial intelligence (AI) in journalism in the form of chatbots, automated story generation, and machine learning techniques applied to news. The big tech companies have pushed AI to the center of their product strategies. How far along is the news business in incorporating these tools into the newsroom, and understanding the broad implications for journalism?
At this event, we will examine how real examples of AI have been used in news, and what we can expect in the near future. We will discuss the importance of this growing field and identify priorities for data journalists, researchers, investigative reporters, and newsrooms.
Join Columbia University's Tow Center for Digital Journalism and Brown Institute for Media Innovation on June 13 for an afternoon conference on Artificial Intelligence: Practice and Implications for Journalism. Panels will feature journalists, technologists, lawyers and ethicists who will present and discuss state of the art applications, challenges and legal implications of AI implementation in newsrooms.
 
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Tuesday, June 13, 2017 Columbia Journalism School, Brown Institute
PROGRAM: 
1:00pm Welcome Address from Steve Coll (Columbia Journalism School)
 
1:15pm     Exploring the Ethics of the AI Powered Products 
With Angela Bassa (iRobot), Jerry Talton (Slack), Amanda Levendowski (NYU), Madeleine Clare Elish (Columbia University), Gilad Lotan (Buzzfeed), John Keefe (Quartz), moderated by Nick Diakopoulos (University of Maryland) 
2:15pm      Future Ethical Dilemmas: Joshua Benton (Nieman Journalism Lab) in conversation with Rachita Chandra (IBM Watson Health) 
2:45pm      AI in the Newsroom: Technology and Practical Applications With Sam Bowman (NYU), Marc Lavallee (The New York Times), Sasha Koren (The Guardian Mobile Innovation Lab), Judith Donath (Berkman Center), Meredith Whittaker (Google Open Research / AINow), moderated by Christopher Mims (The Wall Street Journal)
3:30pm      Closing Remarks from Emily Bell (Tow Center for Digital Journalism)
 
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We hope you can join us for this timely discussion. This is an invite-only event; please direct any questions to towcenter@columbia.edu.

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