AI: Friend or Foe
An online event held via Zoom at 6pm on Tuesday 18th November 2026.
Event Description
An online discussion panel about how generative AI has changed the world of media - three years after the launch of Chat GPT.
In October 2023, we held a fascinating online discussion about the newly launched ChatGPT- asking whether generative AI was a friend or foe. Well, November 2025 is the third anniversary of the launch of ChatGPT, a good time to hold a follow-up discussion on how AI is changing the media industry – fundamentally and forever.
Generative AI has now become a significant feature of the media world. Many of us use it in our work and daily lives, in one way or another. AI has made media organisations rethink their future strategy and work systems. And there are an increasing number of high-profile legal battles over AI-related copyright issues.
The latest controversy has been the launch of the AI actress Tilly Norwood - which left Hollywood 'fuming'“, according to reports.
In 2023, we asked: “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, and undermine copyright?”
Here we are in 2025, and AI has moved from being a question mark into a reality.
So, the Media Society held this important panel discussion: AI and the Media: Friend or Foe. Part 2.
Event Panel
Geeta Guru-Murthy (Event Chair): BBC TV news presenter, and now doing a Masters on AI Ethics at Cambridge.
Graham Lovelace: Editor of the highly successful global 'Charting Gen AI' Substack newsletter.
Rhiannon Williams: MIT Technology Review reporter, with a special interest in AI and robotics. Writes the award-winning The Download newsletter.
Nick Parnes: CEO of the company responsible for Channel 4’s Dispatches documentary which deployed an AI presenter to investigate workplace automation, sparking debate about job replacement, trust and cost.
This event is the second part of our Zoom panel discussion, first held on 3 October 2023. To see Part One of the TMS discussion on AI and the Media, click on link below: