38.4 - Shakeel Hashim on AI Journalism

AI researchers often complain about the poor coverage of their work in the news media. But why is this happening, and how can it be fixed? In this episode, I speak with Shakeel Hashim about the resource constraints facing AI journalism, the disconnect between journalists' and AI researchers' views on transformative AI, and efforts to improve the state of AI journalism, such as Tarbell and Shakeel's newsletter, Transformer.
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FAR.AI: far.ai
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FAR.AI on YouTube: youtube.com/@FARAIResearch
The Alignment Workshop: alignment-workshop.com

Topics we discuss, and timestamps:
01:31 - The AI media ecosystem
02:34 - Why not more AI news?
07:18 - Disconnects between journalists and the AI field
12:42 - Tarbell
18:44 - The Transformer newsletter

Links:
Transformer (Shakeel's substack): transformernews.ai
Tarbell: tarbellfellowship.org

Episode art by Hamish Doodles: hamishdoodles.com