La Times Owner Intends To Include Ai-powered Bias Metre In News Articles

Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong, claims he would install an AI-powered bias metre on the news articles.

Soon-Shiong, who is also planning to restructure the editorial board and reject the publications endorsement of Kamala Harris , said this will provide readers with both sides of a story.

The biotech entrepreneur Soon-Shiong, who purchased the Times in 2018, revealed to CNN political analyst Scott Jennings, who will be joining the Times editorial board, that he has been quietly building an AI bias metre behind the scenes. The same augmented intelligence technology that he has been developing since 2010 for medical applications powers the metre, which is scheduled for release in January, according to Soon-Shiong.

On Jennings Flyover Country podcast, he stated, Someone could recognise as they read it that the source of the item has some level of bias. And what we need to do is not have what we call confirmation bias and then that story automatically. The reader can press a button and get both sides of that same story based on that story and then comment on it.

According to Soon-Shiong , major publishers have not yet done a good enough job of keeping news and opinion apart, which could be the downfall of what people now call mainstream media.