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of stoking, quote, hysteria, all of this as the u.s. said it identified several russian elites who could face sanctions if russian president vladimir putin moves forward with an invasion. we ll have much more on our lead story in just a moment, plus this. there are new details on just how close then vice president-elect kamala harris came to a pipe bomb planted at the headquarters in washington. multiple sources say on january 6th, harris was inside the dnc for nearly two hours before that bomb was detected. we do begin this morning with that emergency meeting at the united nations. kylie atwood, cnn international correspondent, there this morning. listen, it s the u.n. two permanent members of the u.n. security council are on russia s side and russia and china. what do we expect or hope to come out of this meeting today? reporter: well, jim, what s significant about this meeting is that the u.s. and russia are going to face one another at the same table and we will ....
entirely written by a human, so what s going on? today, we re dedicating the whole programme to these questions. with me are madhumita murgia, artificial intelligence editor at the financial times, sky news science and technology editor, tom clarke, eliz mizon, from independent media cooperative the bristol cable, as well as jackson ryan, science editor at cnet. welcome to you all. and i think we should start with the basics. madhu, if i could bring you in, from the financial times, explain what we mean by aland why, particularly in terms of the role ofjournalism it has, why it s getting so much coverage now. well, so, ai is artificial intelligence and, i mean, supposedly it s a mechanical computer version of human intelligence, or at least that s the hope, right? but today, what we have is, it s basically a powerful statistical system, a computer software, which finds patterns in large amounts of data. but what this means is that it can, you know, find diagnoses from ....
and what we re talking about today is generative ai, which is software that can actually create and generate things that include words, images, code, even video. and how widely is it being used in newsrooms, do you think? i mean, what s the financial times doing, for example? so, i think, over the last six months, it would be impossible to ignore it if you were a newsroom with a digital operation that was trying to reach people online. i think you d have to be aware and, you know, and have to be experimenting with it. most big, large news publishers are doing it the ft is. we would. we ve put out, our editor put out a letter saying we re not going to be publishing any stories that are written by ai, but we will be looking at how it might help journalists do theirjobs better, things like summarising complex documents, like, you know, tax documents or, you know, readouts from court cases, things like that, that are difficult for humans to read lots of, very quickly. it ....
what sources will i rely on to deliver trustworthy news? will it putjournalists out of a job? the chances are you ve already perhaps unknowingly read a news article that wasn t entirely written by a human. so what s going on? today, we re dedicating the whole programme to these questions. with me are the artificial intelligence editor at the financial times. sky news s science and technology editor tom clark and liz mizen from independent media cooperative, the bristol cable, as well as jackson ryan, science editor at cnet. welcome to you all. and i think we should start with the basics. if i could bring you in from the financial times, explain what we mean by aland why particular in terms of the role ofjournalism and it has why it s getting so much coverage now. so ai is artificial intelligence. and i mean, supposedly it s a mechanical computer version of human intelligence. so at least that s the hope. right? but today what we have is it s basically a powerful statist ....
you know, find diagnoses from pictures of x rays or it can look through lots of words and help translate them into different languages. and what we re talking about today is generative ai, which is software that can actually create and generate things that include words, images, code, even video. and how widely is it being used in newsrooms, do you think? i mean, what s the financial times doing, for example? so, i think, over the last six months, it would be impossible to ignore it if you were a newsroom with a digital operation that was trying to reach people online. i think you d have to be aware and, you know, and have to be experimenting with it. most big, large news publishers are doing it the ft is. we would. we ve put out, our editor put out a letter saying we re not going to be publishing any stories that are written by ai, but we will be looking at how it might help journalists do theirjobs better, things like summarising complex documents, like, you know, t ....