More than 160 journalists and media representatives meet since Wednesday with the “urgent task” of adopting artificial intelligence (AI) to avoid being “victims” of the change in the Sipconnect 2025 event of the Inter -American Press Society (SIP) in Miami.
“The motto that gathers us, ‘reinventing the future of the media’, is not a rhetorical statement, is an urgent task. We have to address it soon because the environment in which we work is being redesigned at an unprecedented speed and, if we are not protagonists of this change, we will be his victims,” said the president of the SIP, José Roberto Dutriz, in his inaugural speech.
The AI is a central theme of the SIP Forum, a group of more than 1,300 publications in the region, which from Wednesday to Friday will seek that these tools enhance journalistic work without replacing its essence, ”said the leader of the agency.
Also, it pretends that journalists be able to identify risks, such as automated manipulation or algorithmic biases and counteract them with transparency, ethics and critical sense. “
“We live a moment of deep transition. On the one hand, the technological revolution that crosses our writings, our audiences and our business models, on the other, the sustainability crisis, which puts the continuity of hundreds of media, especially local and independent at risk,” said Dutriz.
Therefore, the event also looks for new financing models for journalism, such as the Press Forward Filantropic Coalition, which has invested more than 500 million dollars to strengthen US local media.
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Dale Anglin, director of Press Forward, warned of the effects produced by the disappearance of newspapers, television and other local media, such as a fall in the civic commitment of the inhabitants, an increase in polarization and a “corruption crisis” in municipal governments.
The ‘growing authoritarianism’
To the debates about AI and business models, “there is a growing erosion of public confidence fueled by misinformation, polarization and discredit towards journalistic work, in a context of growing authoritarianism and deterioration of press freedom,” said Dutriz.
The executive director of the SIP, Carlos Lauria, warned that “authoritarianism advances and grows, and every time with less masks” in America, where “this country”, the United States, “clearly is no longer an exception.”
“What gathers us today is not just to learn the latest technological trends, use the tools that are marking the future, but rather congregates something deeper: the certainty that the future of journalism is at stake and, with it, the right of our societies to be informed with freedom and pluralism,” he said.
The meeting, under the slogan ‘reinvent the future of the media’, congregates until Friday to leaders of organizations and companies such as Google News Initiative, the EFE agency, Knight Foundation, TV Azteca, Infobae, Telemundo, Univision, the Mexican editorial organization (OEM) and RC News.
With EFE information
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