Investigating AI systems in your community

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 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 knowledge and skills to cover and shape coverage of AI and its profound impact on society. This is not a training on how to use AI in the newsroom.
Learning outcomes:
> Background knowledge on the history of AI to understand its latest developments
> A clearer understanding of how AI works and how to better cover the multiple parts that make up its supply chain
> How to resist AI hype, and how to identify and cover the most important dangers, failures, and real world impacts of AI (illustrated with story examples and some interactive exercises)
> How to use their existing arsenal of tools to cover AI from every angle
Organised in association with the Pulitzer Center's AI Spotlight Series.