Technological innovations carry journalism to artificial and autonomous agents

Abstract

In recent years, disruptive technological innovations have introduced radical technologizing in mass communicative resources, making a significant part of society consistently adhere to its use. This transformation has greatly altered the productive processes of field of Communication, especially in the Journalism segment, where a dense automation of processes has been consolidated and, more recently, Artificial autonomous agents began to compose, to write and distribute news without human participation. In this work we approach the incorporation of Artificial Intelligence systems to the reality of Journalism, which is reconfiguring the productive logics and requiring new skills and professional skills. The reflections of this article are based on an extensive bibliographical review of an exploratory and interdisciplinary character.