Artificial intelligence
On top of a failing business model, newsrooms must navigate the powerful — and not fully reliable — new capabilities of artificial intelligence and the deployment of large language models.
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The web hurt the news business. Will AI hurt it more?
Who owns the future?
Some 30 years after the arrival of the first modern web browser — an initial, small crack in the economic foundation of the news business — the widespread availability of artificial intelligence services make urgent the question once again. The press of a different future, the question of ownership, is being felt keenly in any information business: data, news, entertainment, art. AI will create wealth, people are betting, but how will that wealth be distributed?
July 9, 2025
resources
The Journalist’s Resource: AI in the newsroom: What researchers learned from the AP and the BBC
Congressional Research Service: Generative artificial intelligence and copyright law
Congressional Research Service: The macroeconomic effects of artificial intelligence
Congressional Research Service: Section 230 immunity and generative artificial intelligence
Congressional Research Service: Generative artificial intelligence and data privacy: a primer
Congressional Research Service: How generative artificial intelligence is changing work