Senators who have raised bipartisan outcry over the demise of newsrooms at the hands of Big Tech companies are rallying to protect journalism from the potentially fatal blow of artificial intelligence.
They’re hoping to ensure that news organizations receive full compensation when algorithms are trained using news articles — and are urging colleagues to act before the twilight of human-generated news sets in.
“There are legitimate fears that AI will directly replace journalists,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., chairman of the Judiciary Committee’s Privacy, Technology and the Law Subcommittee, said at a hearing last month. Blumenthal urged senators not to repeat a prior mistake by being too slow to regulate technology’s impact on the industry.
