Building tools and training newsrooms
AP’s Local News AI helps U.S. local newsrooms to identify and adopt artificial intelligence-based solutions. The program surveyed the U.S. local news landscape on AI readiness, published a report of the findings and created a six-unit course to teach to knowledge interests in AI and news. The program also developed blueprints for 15 newsroom projects that use AI and then created tools for five of those newsrooms.
The Local News AI initiative is made possible by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.