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How NPR's team covering AI covers their increasingly important and fast moving outpaced
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Sometimes journalists who cover a beat have an aha moment, something that marks a clear before and after.
Key facts
- NEELY: the reporter thinks when the first trickles of information about the Hugging Face incident
- that is where OpenAI disclosed that some of its agents, which are autonomous programs, had hacked this other AI
- BRETT NEELY, BYLINE: The first OpenAI, like, image generation models started appearing
- ROSE: Can you point to a recent story that your team aired that you think encapsulates, the reporter doesn't know, NPR's approach to reporting on AI
- ROSE: To be clear, NPR this week announced a grant from the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism to support this coverage that they've been talking
Summary
How NPR's team covering AI covers their increasingly important and fast moving beat. BRETT NEELY, BYLINE: The first OpenAI, like, image generation models started appearing. And, you know, the reporter mean, they keep seeing this contradiction of almost everyone in these companies saying, from the CEOs on down, sort of talks about what a powerful scary technology this is, and it needs to be regulated. The reporter doesn't think they understood the gravity of it immediately in the moment, and it took them a few days to respond, the reporter thinks, in the way that the reporter felt good with.