Industry and academia in a forum on Journalism and AI

Raul Garcia Hemonnet

The event aims to reflect on the challenges that the emergence and use of Artificial Intelligence pose for the journalism profession.

To this end, the event has been structured into two roundtable discussions that will address topics such as the effects of the use of Artificial Intelligence on journalistic ethics and credibility, and the challenges and opportunities that unregulated AI poses to the journalism sector.

In addition to the master's program directors, Manuel Gétrudix and Antonio Rubio, the general director of the Servimedia agency, José Manuel González Huesa, and the director of Confilegal, Carlos Berbell, among other experts in the journalism and technology sectors, will participate.

As Manuel Gértrudix explains, one of the forum's most striking proposals "has to do with the use of Generative AI for how it facilitates the development of journalistic content through its automated delivery and its effects on credibility." Furthermore, the professor of Digital and Multimedia Communication at the URJC adds, the event will serve to reflect on "what repositioning the EU needs to undertake in an increasingly deregulated AI sector, without losing its position in the sector, understanding the impact in terms of copyright, data protection, and the right to privacy that affects aspects such as editorial transparency and journalistic ethics." As Manuel Gértrudix comments, "in Europe, we are at a crossroads, because we have a very protective model, but it has little impact on this reality, which is more similar to the Wild West."

The organizers of the innovation forum "Ethical and Regulatory Challenges of AI in Journalism" intend to continue these events so they can continue to reflect on the relationship between journalism and Artificial Intelligence.

The event will be held in the auditorium of the Quintana headquarters from 12:00 to 14:30, with free registration and online streaming.