Peng on Journalism & AI: Reuters Institute
Journalism assistant professor Zhao Peng discusses implementing AI practices into the Journalism curriculum, as students have mixed reactions to using the emerging tool.
“When I introduce AI tools in my class, some of them are very eager to learn how AI can be incorporated in news production and others think of AI as an evil tool that will diminish their abilities, especially in journalism,” she said.
At the beginning of the semester, Peng sets the rules very clearly: using AI for writing an entire assignment is prohibited and she will use AI detection tools to enforce this rule. But she’s finding ways to incorporate GenAI into her own classes.
“Journalism relies on new technologies. So you can think about the coming of television and the coming of social media,” she says. “After AI, of course we need to think of new ways of helping students understand this technology better.”
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