News will be intermediated by AI. What's next?

Link: The Three-Layer Cake: Public-Interest Information in an AI-Intermediated Age, by Gina Chua and Adiel Kaplan at the Tow-Knight Center for Journalism FuturesGina Chua and Adiel Kaplan at the Tow-Knight Center for Journalism Futures have put together a report summarizing a year of convenings and conversations about how journalism might react to its intermediation by AI. I was privileged to take part and to read a draft version of this report.I love the framing here: the three-layer cake is digestible (so to speak), and I think the conclusions are sound. The worrisome thing for journalism is that most newsrooms live in the creation layer — the creators who supply the information which informs answers and summaries — which is also the part of the stack where participants have the least leverage.So we need open, shared, common infrastructure. I think we also need strong portability standards. I’d argue that another word for the consumption layer as described here is profiling; tools…