38.4 - Shakeel Hashim on AI Journalism

AI researchers often complain about the poor coverage of their work in the news media. But why is this happening, and how can it be fixed? In this episode, I speak with Shakeel Hashim about the resource constraints facing AI journalism, the disconnect between journalists' and AI researchers' views on transformative AI, and efforts to improve the state of AI journalism, such as Tarbell and Shakeel's newsletter, Transformer. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/axrpodcast Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/axrpodcast The transcript: https://axrp.net/episode/2025/01/05/episode-38_4-shakeel-hashim-ai-journalism.html FAR.AI: https://far.ai/ FAR.AI on X (aka Twitter): https://x.com/farairesearch FAR.AI on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FARAIResearch The Alignment Workshop: https://www.alignment-workshop.com/   Topics we discuss, and timestamps: 01:31 - The AI media ecosystem 02:34 - Why not more AI news? 07:18 - Disconnects between journalists and the AI field 12:42 - Tarbell 18:44 - The Transformer newsletter   Links: Transformer (Shakeel's substack): https://www.transformernews.ai/ Tarbell: https://www.tarbellfellowship.org/   Episode art by Hamish Doodles: hamishdoodles.com