Getting AI-ed
Top Story: Getting AI-ed
Once upon a time, AI was all the rage. You discovered you could fix a sink without a plumber, get the history of local hurricanes in nano-seconds, find that source whose name you’d forgotten.
Then, you had to run a correction because you trusted the computer brain and it had failed you.
Or maybe that just happened to an officemate.
Now, you don’t have buyer’s remorse — as much as some healthy skepticism.
…And the awareness that AI may be hurting — rather than helping — some of the people you report on.
Reporting Right thought it might be helpful to gather some AI stories for you, things to think about, report on, investigate, or maybe just put in your back pocket.
AI AND YOUR BEAT
First……*Shout out to The Mark Up*
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AI at the local hospital. Who’s using it and how?
This NYT story explores how AI memory may one day help yours.
Who is being nice to ICE? Now you know.
A list of state and local police departments and other agencies working with ICE.
Should AI be deciding if parents on your beat are abusing their kids?
What neighborhoods have fast internet? Which ones don’t?
Who’s sharing license plate info with ICE — and is that okay?
Who else is using AI on the job?
The local school? The police department? The mayor’s office? No one?
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