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An industry-led debate: how UK media cover artificial intelligence

Abstract:: In this factsheet we analyse eight months of reporting on artificial intelligence (AI) in six mainstream news outlets in the United Kingdom to understand how AI is emerging as a public issue. Our mixed-methods analysis reveals that a majority of articles are pegged to industry concerns, and a plurality of sources originate from industry. Coverage frequently amplifies self-interested assertions of AI’s value and potential, while positioning AI primarily as a private commercial concern and undercutting the role of public action in addressing AI.
Portraying AI as a relevant and competent solution to a range of public problems, outlets also regularly assert the influence it will have across areas of public life often with little acknowledgement of ongoing debates concerning AI’s potential effects. Finally, AI is being politicised through the topics that outlets emphasise: right-leaning outlets highlight issues of economics and geopolitics and left-leaning outlets highlight issues of ethics and discrimination.

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Brennen, J. S., Howard, P. N., & Nielsen, R. K. (2018). An industry-led debate: how UK media cover artificial intelligence (RISJ Factsheets). Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

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Brennen, J. S., et al. An Industry-Led Debate: How UK Media Cover Artificial Intelligence. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, 2018.

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Brennen, JS, PN Howard, and RK Nielsen. 2018. “An Industry-Led Debate: How UK Media Cover Artificial Intelligence.” RISJ Factsheets. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
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Institution:: University of Oxford
Division:: SSD
Department:: Politics & Int Relations
Sub department:: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
Department:: Unknown
Role:: Author

+ Howard, PN More by this author

Institution:: University of Oxford
Division:: SSD
Department:: Oxford Internet Institute
Role:: Author

+ Nielsen, RK More by this author

Institution:: University of Oxford
Division:: SSD
Department:: Politics & Int Relations
Sub department:: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
Role:: Author

Publisher:: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
Series:: RISJ Factsheets
Place of publication:: Oxford
Publication date:: 2018-12-13
DOI:: 10.60625/risj-v219-d676

Language:: English
Pubs id:: pubs:963448
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Local pid:: pubs:963448
Source identifiers:: 963448
Deposit date:: 2019-01-17

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Copyright holder:: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
Copyright date:: 2018
Rights statement:: Published by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism as part of the Oxford Martin Programme on Misinformation, Science and Media, a three-year research collaboration between the Reuters Institute, the Oxford Internet Institute, and the Oxford Martin School. This report can be reproduced under the Creative Commons licence CC BY.

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