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AI and the Media

AI has been a massive talking point this year, in all areas of the media.

Is it friend or foe?

Will AI help media folk to become more creative, freeing them up from mundane tasks, and allowing them to extend their production and editorial horizons?

Or will it replace jobs, promote tired formats and stereotypes, increase misinformation, encourage plagiarism, and undermine copyright?

It’s nearly a year since ChatGTP and generative AI was launched – and, since then, it’s shaken the foundations of the entire global media world.

Half of newsrooms are now apparently working with tools like ChatGTP, AI-written books are starting to appear, and the TV and film industry are using a range of AI tools.

So, to try to make sense of this, the Media Society has put together a high-profile Zoom panel to discuss the impact that the era of AI will have on key aspects of the media – TV and film, journalism, the internet, and publishing.

 Our Panel

• Sir Peter Bazalgette   Former chair of ITV, the Arts Council and Endemol.
  
  
  
  
• Jessica Cecil. Founder of the Trusted News Initiative and former BBC Chief of Staff.
  
  
  
  
• Alex Connock. Fellow at the Said Business School, and author ‘Media Management and AI'.
  

• Thad McIlroy. The Future Of Publishing.  Thad will be joining us live from San Francisco.
  

CHAIR TO FOLLOW

Zoom waiting room open at 6:15pm

There will be a LIVE audience Q & A.