AI in media and journalism: Ethical challenges.

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Professor, Department of Journalism, Faculty of Mass Communication, Cairo University

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The article synthesizes the opportunities and associated risks that AI technologies offer for media as a field, the principles that should undergird the adoption of AI and evaluates the ethical challenges; proposing specific recommendations that, if adopted, will enable seize the opportunities, to avoid or at least minimize and counterbalance the risks, to respect the principles, and hence to develop a good AI society. 
Using an overview of the AI ethics literature, this article proposes a series of recommendations for the development of a good AI serving journalism and society as well. I reveal several ethical challenges, than suggesting “AI literacy” as a mean to leverage these ethical challenges to empower professionals, which eventually benefits society at large.

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