This article is written by Maria Teresa Ronderos, director for the Program on Independent Journalism at the Open Society Foundation. Many large newsrooms and news agencies have, for some time, relegated sports, weather, stock exchange movements and corporate performance stories to computers. Machines can be more rigorous and comprehensive than some reporters. Software can import data from various sources, recognise trends and patterns and, using Natural Language Processing, put those trends into context, constructing sophisticated sentences with adjectives, metaphors and similes. These developments are why many in the journalistic profession fear Artificial Intelligence will leave them without a job. But, if instead of fearing it, journalists embrace AI, it could become the saviour of the trade -- making it possible for them to better cover the increasingly complex, globalised and information-rich world we live in.