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My Job as a Journalist Is Going to a Bot

But it’s not all dystopia. The most competent among us will still have jobs, and AI will force us to excel.

It should have been obvious when college students started using ChatGPT to cheat on academic papers that the bots were coming for our bylines — and yet, I think, journalists thought they might be spared. After all, any bot could mimic a badly written college essay, but what journalists do? That requires finesse, skill, and critical thought.

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