As states and corporations increasingly load decision-making onto artificial intelligence technologies and algorithms, how can we as journalists keep them in check? How do you hold an algorithm to acc...

#JournalismAI is a project of Polis LSE launched in 2019 in collaboration with the Google News Initiative. In November 2019 the report New powers, new responsibilities. A global survey of journalism a...

Artificial intelligence, machine learning, predictive justice and automated decision-making processes. The impact of algorithms on citizens' freedoms. Risks and possible solutions. The public debate ...

The ethical and social impact of technology, and the role of journalists and media in it. The session will consider what the social impacts and ethical implications are of new technologies such as ar...

An overview of the evolution of data journalism: from the basics of computer-assisted reporting to computational journalism. This session will look at the fundamentals that remain the same in the fie...

In the current news ecosystem, filter bubbles, echo chambers, misinformation and viralized fake news are rampant. We will address how artificial intelligence (AI) could, on the one hand, help journali...

What’s the role of artificial intelligence when it comes to publishing? How are news organizations starting to experiment with this emerging technology, and what are the best practices? This session...

In conversation with Paul Nemitz. Moderated by Fabio Chiusi. The session will consider some of the issues arising from the October 2018 article Constitutional democracy and technology in the age of...

In May 2018, a Belgian political party circulated a video of Donald Trump that went viral. The problem? It wasn’t a real video. An example of synthetic media, popularly known as deepfakes, the video...

The rise of Artificial Intelligence in the newsroom has been hyped as both the coming apocalypse and journalism's potential saviour. But how can we even begin to understand whether these hyperbole are...