NEW YORK — As artificial intelligence reshapes how people find and consume news, a new report from the Tow-Knight Center for Journalism Futures at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY examines what it will take to ensure the public has access to reliable, relevant information.
The Three-Layer Cake: Public-Interest Information in an AI-Intermediated Age draws on a year of convenings and conversations with journalists, technologists, funders, investors and other experts. It considers how journalism must evolve as AI systems increasingly stand between information providers and the people they serve.
“Our goal with this report was to set out one vision of the coming infrastructure of the information age and offer suggestions for how we — the journalism industry and other public-spirited organizations — could shape it to serve people, and the information commons, better,” said Gina Chua, executive director of the Tow-Knight Center. “What’s clear is that we must work quickly if we want to have a positive impact.”
The report outlines three connected layers: the products that identify what people want to know, the systems that synthesize answers, and the organizations that produce the underlying reporting. Each layer, the report argues, requires attention and distinct strategies to serve the public interest.
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