Media leaders warn of ai's threat to journalism

Top media executives from print, digital, and broadcast sectors raised alarms about AI's impact on journalism during the inaugural Status Summit in New York on September 9. The Atlantic's CEO, Nicholas Thompson, and New York Times CEO, Meredith Kopit Levien, warned that large language model developers have engaged in unprecedented intellectual property theft. Thompson added that AI could 'turn our business upside down.' Levien criticized developers for stealing creative work on an 'unprecedented' scale. Publishers have long sought collective bargaining rights to negotiate better deals with tech firms, but efforts to secure antitrust exemptions for ad deals have stalled in Congress. Kara Swisher, a veteran tech journalist, emphasized the need for a merger of tech and politics at this critical juncture.