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Artificial intelligence-enhanced journalism offers a glimpse of the future of the knowledge economy

  • Written by Nicholas Diakopoulos, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, Northwestern University
Artificial intelligence-enhanced journalism offers a glimpse of the future of the knowledge economyRobots won't hold the pens just yet, but they can help people do the work.Paul Fleet/Shutterstock.com

Much as robots have transformed entire swaths of the manufacturing economy, artificial intelligence and automation are now changing information work, letting humans offload cognitive labor to computers. In journalism, for instance, data mining...

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