Forbes writers will use AI to pen their rough drafts

Contrary to popular belief, the steadfast march toward automation is affecting all sorts of fields -- not just blue-collar industries like manufacturing and transportation. Already, artificially intelligent systems (AI) are reviewing contracts and mining documents in discovery, determining which job candidates get callbacks, and selecting the inventory retailers choose to highlight for particular customers. Now, at least one publication is using it to help supply generate "thought starters" that might later become published articles. According to a report in Digiday this morning, Forbes' product team recently began internally testing an AI tool that supplies story threads. It builds on the publisher's semi-automated topics recommendation feature in Bertie, its content management system (CMS), that produces writing prompts based on reporters' previous work.