Ethics and policy

LANGUAGE: English

TIME required: Less than 30 minutes.

This checklist is aimed at journalists and communicators. It highlights the most problematic practices in AI reporting, including misrepresenting AI, spreading unsubstantiated claims about its potential and neglecting its limitations, and promoting industry narratives. Negative examples from real-life reports are cited.

(by Sayash Kapoor & Hilke Schellenmann & Arvind Narayanan, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY)

LANGUAGE: English

TIME required: Less than 30 minutes.

This analysis is primarily aimed at investigative reporters, but is also relevant for all journalists covering AI issues. It provides guidance on how to get around the hype generated by AI companies. Journalists can write more insightful articles by asking critical questions about training data, model evaluations and the potential societal impact of these technologies.

(by Sayash Kapoor & Hilke Schellenmann & Arisen, COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW)

LANGUAGE: English

TIME required: Less than 30 minutes.

This handbook chapter includes examples and techniques journalists can use to report on algorithms. These include technical investigations into some of these systems' biases.

(By Nicholas Diakopoulos)

LANGUAGE: English

TIME required: 30 minutes, up to 1 hour.

This guide is aimed at artists, designers, educators, activists and other communication professionals. The guide explains how biased but repeatedly used visual representations of artificial intelligence can shape a false public perception of AI. To illustrate this, it lists overused, problematic elements that should be avoided. It also provides constructive advice for choosing and designing new, better illustrations of AI.

(By Kanta Dihal (Imperial College London) and Tania Duarte (We and I))

LANGUAGE: English

TIME required: Less than 30 minutes.

In an interview, researcher Maggie Mustaklem explains the issues regarding representing AI tools as robots and why journalists should steer away from these representations. This is a shorter version of the discussion in the Better Images of AI guide.

(By Marina Adami)

How to report effectively on artificial intelligence (By Lakshmi Sivadas & Sabrina Argoub, LSE)

Guidelines for journalists and editors about reporting on robots, AI, and computers (By Ben Shneiderman)

LANGUAGE: English

TIME required: 2-3 hours.

The report provides guidelines for the use of AI in different stages and tasks of the journalistic process (production, dissemination, etc.). It offers principles for media organizations, technology providers, and states to ensure responsible AI use, and a practical checklist to assess the suitability of particular systems.

LANGUAGE: English

TIME required: Less than 30 minutes.

This document presents a set of ethical principles for journalists and outlets to promote trustworthy news in the era of AI. It was written by a commission of media specialists initiated by Reporters Sans Frontieres.

LANGUAGE: English

TIME required: Less than 30 minutes.

This blog post presents research findings on news consumers' expectations over how transparent journalist should be regarding the use of AI in news reporting. It presents survey data indicating that respondents want to know how AI is used in reporting and it makes recommendations for journalists on how to disclose their AI use.

(By Lynn Walsh)

LANGUAGE: English, Swedish

TIME required: Less than 30 minutes.

This report brings recommendations for AI transparency, with principles and practical recommendations. It is focused on Swedish media, but the discussion is valuable in other countries as well.

LANGUAGE: English

TIME required: 1 hour.

This report is the result of a summit with journalists and technologists held by Poynter to update their AI ethics guide. It includes insights on multiple areas around the use of AI in the newsroom, including concerns about trust in these systems and audience feedback.

LANGUAGE: English.

TIME required: 3-5 hours

This guide provides an overview of prompt engineering, including techniques to optimise prompts for using large language models (LLMs) based on research on these systems' behaviours. It covers advanced prompting methods, resources, and tools to use LLMs more effectively.

LANGUAGE: English.

TIME required: 3-5 hours.

A guide on how to use AI in journalism, covering topics such as automating news production, supporting investigations, and fact-checking.

LANGUAGE: English

TIME required: 1 hour.

This guide has 10 steps to guide newsrooms when adopting AI. It includes a roadmap that goes from identifying goals and tools to satisfy them, as well as how to proceed during their procurement and use. It includes case studies with practical examples.

LANGUAGE: English.

TIME required: Less than 30 minutes.

An overview of how different newsrooms are implementing AI in their processes. It lists some of the main tasks in which AI is implemented, use cases, and risks to consider.

(By Dalia Hashim)