Jan Martinez Ahrens, EL PAIS editor-in-chief: Artificial intelligence can never replace journalists on the battlefield'

"You are the true owners of our information and the newspaper"

"Although we are facing a disinformation crisis, major newspapers are living in a powerful moment. The weapons that technology provides us can help us, including artificial intelligence, which can never replace journalists on the battlefield."

"You need the source. The documents. That which takes you out of the normal flow of information."

Fifty subscribers attended a meeting at the newspaper's Madrid headquarters with its editor-in-chief. Major newspapers are described as experiencing strength despite a disinformation crisis, with technology and artificial intelligence serving as tools that can assist but not substitute frontline reporting. War coverage, particularly in Gaza, is identified as uniquely demanding and dangerous for journalists and not reproducible by AI. Routine financial reporting could be automated if readers are informed. Investigative reporting requires sources and documents, exemplified by a 2010 collaborative release of 250,000 U.S. State Department cables that implicated corruption, diplomatic scandals, and espionage, involving the entire newsroom.

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