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'Journalists are feeding the AI hype machine'
AI reporters and experts discuss how well or otherwise the media covers the topic.
When Melissa Heikkilä looks back on her past four years writing about artificial intelligence (AI), two key things jump out to her, one good, one bad. "I do think journalists have a tendency to focus on the negatives, and I'd like to see more headlines about the positive uses of AI - formatting new medicines, for example, and providing breakthroughs in the search for nuclear fusion - alongside the risks it poses." "Executives like Sam Altman of OpenAI and Elon Musk are putting their opinions forward on a frequent basis, and there's also the immediate critique of releases from experts that feeds into the news cycle, so everything is sped up."
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