# Professor Amy Webb's research on the impact of AI on the journalism industry is featured

1 Faculty News October 7, 2017 ![Phys.org logo 192 x 144](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/phys192x144.jpg?itok=2H8OhKP0)>

Excerpt from [Phys.org](https://phys.org/news/2017-10-future-news-bracing-technology.html) -- "One big problem facing media organizations is that new technologies impacting the future of news such as AI are out of their control, and instead is in the hands of tech firms like Google, Amazon, Tencent, Baidu, IBM, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, according to [Webb](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/amy-webb). 'News organizations are customers, not significant contributors,' the report said. 'We recommend cross-industry collaboration and experimentation on a grand scale, and we encourage leaders within journalism to organize quickly.'"

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