As technology develops, so must journalists' codes of ethics Paul Chadwick

Sun 21 Jan 2018 12.37 EST Last modified on Sun 21 Jan 2018 17.00 EST Journalism is largely collaboration: reporters with sources, writers and editors, lawyers advising publishers, producers with distributors, and audiences feeding back their knowledge. Rapid development of artificial intelligence means journalists are likely to collaborate more and more with machines that think. The word itself, machines, feels so industrial era, but "robots" feels too limited. Humans are busy building brains, if not yet minds. So my shorthand for now is AI.