A Robot Stole My Pulitzer!

How automated journalism and loss of reading privacy may hurt civil discourse.

By?|Posted Monday, March 19, 2012, at 7:11 AM ET

Automated journalism like that produced by Narrative Science could perhaps save media jobs, but it can also hurt civil discourse. William Gottlieb/Library of Congress

Can technology be autonomous? Does it lead a life of its own and operate independently of human guidance? From the French theologian?Jacques Ellulto the?Unabomber, this used to be widely accepted. Today, however, most historians and sociologists of technology?dismiss it?as naive and inaccurate. Continue reading “A Robot Stole My Pulitzer!”