Are human journalists truly irreplaceable? How to safeguard public interest journalism in the age of AI (opens in new tab)

Imagine a case where a newsroom deploys a network of AI agents to cover corporate earnings: pulling filings in real time, generating articles, distributing them instantly across platforms. The system is optimised for speed, scale, and cost efficiency, with journalists positioned mainly as liability bearers in case anything goes wrong. Here, hybridisation is machine-centric: first-order affordances such as automation and scalability dominate, and humans remain largely peripheral to the news pr...