Authors & AI Series
Robot Reporters Need Not Apply:
A Journalist's Stand
We’ve been looking at how AI chatbots have been upending fiction writing, but how about in news media? Today we talk with former Wired writer and freelance science journalist Ramin Skibba about the issues that chatbots, as well as business models based on new technologies, are having on journalism – both the news that he writes and the news that we read.
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Ramin Skibba (@raminskibba on Twitter and @raminskibba on Bluesky) is an astrophysicist turned award-winning science writer and freelance journalist based in San Diego and the Bay Area. He writes about science, health, climate and tech issues for a whole bunch of magazines, newspapers, and online news outlets, including The Atlantic, Washington Post, New York Times, National Geographic, Rolling Stone, Slate, Nature, Wired, Undark, Scientific American, Science, Smithsonian, Aeon, New Scientist, Quanta, FiveThirtyEight, Politico, The Hill, San Jose Mercury News, and San Francisco Chronicle. He’s a member of a bunch of journalism organizations, and he’s on the board of the National Association of Science Writers (NASW). He previously served as president of the San Diego Science Writers Association.
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