A tool to assist, not replace the reporter.

Some AI tools can summarize a long article, generate angle ideas or prioritize topics based on current events. AI can also become a strategic tool for reducing informational blind spots in places or contexts where reporting is impossible due to censorship, conflict or lack of access. But the angle, tone, narrative and reporting remain human choices. This idea encourages an active stance: AI suggests, but never decides. The journalist remains the author. AI is a pencil, not a pen. AI is a tool, not a voice.

Sub-themes around this idea for programme content: ways to leverage, develop or angle the topic:

For listeners:

• What does AI suggest today? Let’s test it live
• AI and local content: relevant or guesswork?
• Do AIs influence the editorial line?
• Test: AI suggests 3 subjects. How many do I keep?

Potential guests: editorial journalist, editorial innovation manager, specialist in open source intelligence (OSINT)

For the radio teams:

• Create an AI suggestion box for the team?
• Experimentation workshops: writing based on AI suggestions
• Internal discussion: AI and creativity: complement or constraint?
• AI: using data to produce radio surveys; e.g. children's rights under threat
• Use of AI for indirect reporting: satellite imagery, OSINT and others to document ‘silent zones’.

Useful links:AI and the future of journalism: an issue brief for stakeholders