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Item number four, approval of minutes for the August 3 Regular meeting and August 17 Special meeting. Directors, are there any additions to the meeting minutes or changes . Seeing none, i open up to public comment. For those of you on the line, if youd like to comment on the approval of the minutes, which is Item Number 4, we have two meetings that we have minutes from, which would be the august 3 and august 17. You can dial the access number, 8888086929, Access Code 9961164. And then press 10 to be in the queue to comment. So, moderator, are there any callers on the line . You have one question remaining. Yes, please. Our first speaker. Caller hi, thank you. Im calling to ask that you to tell you that you need an extra bus on the 48 line because the bus is so full im sorry. This is not the time to comment on that. We are actually on the approval of minutes from the august 3 or 17th meeting. Do you have comments on that . Caller no. But i was taken off of mute and said i was live so i
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 pictur
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 could
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 statistical s