AI and Responsible Journalism
A collaborative research workshop
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Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge
10-11AM (UK) and 4-5PM (UK) on 24 February
The immediate goal of this online workshop is to bring together academics working on the representations and public perceptions of artificial intelligence (AI), journalists, media executives, civil society groups, and technologists to think about
how to empower journalists who do not normally focus on technology reporting to cover AI more responsibly;
how to assist technology journalists in fulfilling their role in keeping tech companies (and their products) accountable;
how to effectively inform media professionals about the social, cultural, and ethical implications of AI and other digital technologies, and about communicators' role in ensuring that technologies are used and developed responsibly.
The ultimate goal of the workshop is to provide grounds for a new collection of co- created resources on AI ethics and journalism ethics aimed at media professionals. The results of the workshop will also be processed into an output aimed at an academic audience (participants will receive more details on this ahead of the workshop).
The workshop is organized as part of the ‘Desirable Digitalization: Rethinking AI for Just and Sustainable Futures’ research program, a collaboration between the Universities of Cambridge and Bonn, funded by Stiftung Mercator, and builds on previous work dedicated to AI narratives at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge.
Conveners
Eleanor Drage, Research Fellow at LCFI, University of Cambridge and co-host of the Good Robot Podcast
Tomasz Hollanek, Research Fellow at LCFI, University of Cambridge
Dorian Peters, Associate Director and Senior Research Fellow at LCFI, University of Cambridge
Participants
Jennifer Baker, Freelance Journalist and Presenter for Euractiv, Euronews, BBC
Craig Brierley, Head of Research Communications, University of Cambridge
Stephen Cave, Director of LCFI, University of Cambridge and Editor of AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines
Florian Christ, project manager at the “Centre for Digital Society” at the Mercator Foundation (Stiftung Mercator)
Kanta Dihal, Senior Research Fellow at LCFI, University of Cambridge and Editor of AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines
Tania Duarte, Co-Founder and CEO of We and AI
Karen Hao, Journalist based in Hong Kong for The Wall Street Journal and previously senior artificial intelligence editor at the MIT Technology Review
Melissa Heikkilä, Senior Reporter for AI, MIT Technology Review
Justin Hendrix, CEO and Editor of Tech Policy Press
Irving Huerta, Research Associate, Cambridge Digital Humanities, former collaborator of the International Consortium for Investigative Journalism
Bronwyn Jones, Reporter for the BBC and Research Associate at the University of Edinburgh
Fred Lewsey, Communications Officer, University of Cambridge
Boyoung Lim, Senior Editor and AI Accountability Network Manager, Pulitzer Center
Kerry McInerney, Research Fellow at LCFI, University of Cambridge, and co-host of the Good Robot Podcast
Hilke Schellmann, Journalism Professor at New York University and freelance reporter covering AI
Marina Walker Guevara, Executive Editor at the Pulitzer Center
Chloe Xiang, Reporter for Motherboard and Vice, Editor-in-chief, Keke Magazine
Miri Zilka, Research Associate in the Machine Learning Group at the University of Cambridge
AI Accountability Fellows at the Pulitzer Center
Varsha Bansal - Freelance journalist
Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava - Freelance journalist
Lydia Emmanouilidou - Freelance journalist
Ann Babe - Freelance journalist
Joanne Cavanaugh Simpson - Advisor for AI Accountability Network, Lecturer at
Johns Hopkins University
Sarah Pabst - Freelance photographer
Karen Naundorf - Freelance journalist
Lam Thuy Vo – Freelance journalist