Associated Press executive said technology will never replace journalists, but must be incorporated
The CMG (China Media Group) – China’s state media state conglomerate – held on Friday (25.br.2025) the 4th Global Media Innovation Forum. The event brought together representatives of about 300 press organizations and a theme that appeared in almost all the speeches of the main authorities present was the incorporation of AI (Artificial Intelligence) into journalistic newsrooms.
In his participation, the vice president of the news agency Associated PressAndrew Bruyne, stated that technology “It will never replace journalists”but that AI must be integrated into the newsrooms to improve journalistic work.
The President of the News Agency ReutersPaul Bascobert has a similar position. In video, the executive said that AI will be used to “Reinforce” The work of journalists, but will not replace journalism by humans.
In addition to being a topic in journalistic newsrooms, the discussion about the incorporation of artificial intelligence gains greater importance because it is an event in China. The country is one of the exponents in this type of technology and has been increasingly advanced since the launch of Deepseek, rival of ChatgPT and Google Gemini.
The chairman of the Board of Directors of Euronews –Canal of European news founded in France – Pedro Vargas David said that AI’s advance is an opportunity to improve journalistic activity and took its speech to bring Europe closer to Chinese technologies and criticize the US -initiated trade war: “Europe and China must remain allies”.
Prior to David’s speech, Chinese authorities such as Deputy Minister of the PCP Central Committee Department of the Central Committee (Communist Party of China), Shen Haixong, took advantage of the space to criticize the United States tariff.
The event lasted about 3 hours and representatives of the Chinese government and newspapers from around the world spoke about exchange and technological empowerment in current journalism.
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The forum was held in the city of Qufu, in the province of Shandong. The region is important for the Chinese because it is the place of birth of Confucius. The 5th -century -born philosopher is considered by many to be the greatest Chinese thinker and one of the main architects of what came to consolidate himself as Chinese civilization.
