TheCable Writer, Kolawole has spoken on the viability of journalism amid AI interruption.
PoliticalNews Nigeria studies that the Founder and Chief Government Officer of a web based newspaper, TheCable, Mr Simon Kolawole has acknowledged that journalism stays viable regardless of Synthetic Intelligence (AI) interruption.
Kolawole made this recognized whereas delivering a lecture on the month-to-month skilled discussion board of the Nigerian Institute of Journalism (NIJ), Ogba, Lagos, on Wednesday, February 5.
The programme, which was themed “Journalism within the Age of AI”, was organised to assist journalists in coaching perceive methods to use AI successfully whereas sustaining moral requirements and human creativity of their reporting.
“AI is altering how information is created, shared, and consumed. Nonetheless, the career remains to be viable, offered journalists are open to fixed studying”, the writer asserted.
He stated, “Up to now, at TheCable, we’ve not sacked any employees on the grounds of AI changing their job. You simply need to empower your self. The media and Journalism is a big discipline and the Nigerian viewers is over 200 million. Both you’re bootstrapping your personal media outlet or working with a giant platform, you’ll stay related if you happen to’re literate in AI.”
Points surrounding the utilization of chatbots and verification instruments have been extensively mentioned on the discussion board with Mr. Kolawole emphasizing the necessity to report info and never fiction.
The interface session allowed college students to debate the advantages of utilizing AI in educational work and the career, together with pace in analysing information, recognizing errors and fact-checking.
Kolawole additionally highlighted the downsides of utilizing AI reminiscent of the dearth of exercising judgement, incapacity to implement ethics, hazard of plagiarism and tendency to mislead.
He referenced deceptive AI-driven interpretations of latest information that led social media customers to falsely declare that Lagos ports should not nearer to the Atlantic than the deliberate port within the southeastern Obeaku neighborhood, amongst many different circumstances that had ensued.
To make sure that college students stay worthwhile within the trade, the Provost of the establishment, Mr Gbenga Adefaye, reiterated, “Simply as how the establishment has been doing and can proceed to do, we improve the ICT content material of our curriculum as a result of the world has moved on from analogue.”
Mr Adefaye asserted that whereas the establishment might in a roundabout way incorporate AI programs into the curriculum but, it can proceed to fulfill the Nationwide Board for Technical Training (NBTE) necessities by integrating ample technological content material into each coaching and operational processes. The NIJ boss offered Mr Kolawole with an award of recognition and lauded his keynote lecture.
Held month-to-month, PoliticalNews Nigeria studies that the NIJ skilled discussion board is an interface session that’s built-in into the scholars’ actions to bridge the hole between academia and trade, getting ready them for profitable careers in journalism and communication.