How AI boosts some jobs but prompts attacks on women

Swapneel Mehta, an AI expert and trainer who has worked with newsrooms across Africa.[Maryann Muganda/Standard]

In Kenyan newsrooms, artificial intelligence (AI) remains an unspoken subject. Behind closed office doors, some journalists quietly deploy AI tools to research stories, draft headlines and streamline workflows.

Yet openly, the technology is treated as contraband, something vaguely illicit that threatens to erode the craft of journalism itself.  Editors warn AI will render reporters lazy and careless.