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US reporter Carl Bernstein has warned that artificial intelligence (AI) is a “huge force” which poses challenges for the future of journalism.
Bernstein and his colleague Bob Woodward were the reporters at the heart of the Watergate scandal and the fall of President Nixon in 1972.
AI’s rapid take-up has sparked fears of job losses, privacy and the potential to circulate misleading information.
Bernstein said “truth is the bottom line for anything in your life.”
In an interview with the BBC’s Amol Rajan, Bernstein and Woodward also reflected on the fall of Nixon, the former presidency of Donald Trump and the state of the US and the world today.
Bernstein said: “We need to know what’s real as opposed to what’s false. The press is the essential element in a community of being able to attain that.”
Asked why anyone should become a reporter today, he said to find “the best obtainable version of the truth”.
The Chat GPT programme, which uses AI, has become widely used in the past year and Rajan read them an excerpt that the tool had produced about the two veteran US journalists.
It briefly summarised who they were and said their work “had inspired a new generation of journalists and established a new standard for investigative reporting”.
Bernstein said he wasn’t enamoured by the extract and described it as “an amalgam of things that have been written about us”.
He recognised part of it from a brochure used for the conference they had attended. Despite it being the early stages of artificial intelligence, he said: “AI is a huge force we’re going to have to grapple with in this world.” BBC
