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A freelancer gets mixed messages from his editors about using artificial intelligence. He calls AdviceLine to solve his dilemma.
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AI Puzzles
shutterstock.com image By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists It was Brian again, a freelancer calling AdviceLine with another question about writing with the aid of artificial intelligen…
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January 22, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Widely used in newsrooms, artificial intelligence has some bad habits. It lies, steals information and could be accused of plagiarism. It even threatens to put newspapers out of business like a ruthless competitor.
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AI Soul Searching
www.cpnet.io image By Hugh Miller and Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists A lot of soul-searching is going on over the ethical use of artificial intelligence in the media, a mind-bending …
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December 12, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Protests erupt nationwide against a federal blitz that nabbed thousands suspected of being undocumented migrants, raising legal and ethics questions.
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Anti-Immigrant Blitz Burns
Protester in cloud of chemical spray in Broadview — Chicago Tribune photo By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists Immigrants in America, once a haven for such people, are now targets…
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October 1, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Artificial intelligence is a technological phenomenon, the fastest-growing consumer software application in history. A reporter asks how to use it ethically and avoid "hallucinations."
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Using AI Ethically
ece/emory.edu image By Casey Bukro and Hugh Miller Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists Brian, a freelance journalist, called AdviceLine with a timely and hot-button question: How far should journalis…
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August 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Artificial intelligence lies up to 27 percent of the time, with factual errors in about half of generated texts. Robots need to be trained to tell the truth.
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Artificial Intelligence Madness
By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists Do you remember HAL 9000? It was the onboard computer of Discovery One spacecraft bound for a mission near Jupiter in the movie “2001: A Space Odyss…
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June 17, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Artificial intelligence systems have "hallucinations," one of the growing concerns about AI running amuck and giving faulty responses that seem true. Can they go insane?
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Artificial Intelligence Madness
By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists Do you remember HAL 9000? It was the onboard computer of Discovery One spacecraft bound for a mission near Jupiter in the movie “2001: A Space Odyss…
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May 31, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Here's a book for Easter reading -- about a faith-healer who created Zion, Illinois, called a Holy City and heaven on earth, before it became home to a scandalous nuclear power plant.
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A Preacher for Easter
By Casey Bukro For Easter, read about John Alexander Dowie and his gospel of wealth and prosperity. Nowhere does the Bible say that people should be poor, preached Dowie, a Scottish-Australian mini…
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April 8, 2025 at 7:42 PM
A BBC reporter in Vietnam asks AdviceLine how to protect the privacy of a COVID-19 patient in a hospital. Two AdviceLine advisors give differing opinions.
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Privacy in a Pandemic
www.BBC.com image By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists The email query came from a British Broadcasting Corporation reporter based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The question was short a…
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April 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM
The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times stopped endorsing political candidates on the eve of the last election. A freelance journalist asked AdviceLine if those newspapers failed to meet their responsibilities in a democracy?
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Political Endorsements Wane
www.tomliberman.com image By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists The freelancer who contacted the Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists was troubled at learning that the Los Angeles Times and…
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February 28, 2025 at 5:47 PM
The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times stopped endorsing political candidates on the eve of the last election. A freelance journalist asks AdviceLine if those newspapers failed to meet their responsibilities in a democracy.
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Political Endorsements Wane
www.tomliberman.com image By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists The freelancer who contacted the Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists was troubled at learning that the Los Angeles Times and…
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February 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Hawaii gets tough on media ethics, but Society of Professional Journalists resists.
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Hawaii wants ethical media
quillmag.com image By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists The Society of Professional Journalists has had a love/hate relationship with its own code of ethics for a long time. It loves be…
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February 11, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Freelance writers fill the gap as newsroom staffs shrink.
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Freelance Writing Grows
www.thestatesman.com image By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists Freelance writing is a swashbuckling sort of business where practitioners live by their wits and guile. It’s always been …
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January 21, 2025 at 5:42 PM
U.S. EPA under Anne Gorsuch revealed the hazards of picking loyalists and sycophants for high public office, and believing in campaign rhetoric.
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Loyalists, Reagan and Trump
Fiery Anne Gorsuch Burford, former EPA administrator. Denver Post image. By Casey Bukro On environment and government We’ve seen it before. A newly elected anti-government president with an enterta…
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January 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
For your holiday gift list, consider "Higher Power," a book for history buffs, as well as those interested in world-changing technology, nuclear power and climate change. It's about the invention of nuclear power in Chicago in 1942, the future of nuclear energy and "the question of the century."
December 12, 2024 at 10:37 PM
Two looted newspapers. How Rupert Murdoch and the late Sam Zell wrecked the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune. Saving newspapers from vulture capitalist marauders.
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Two Looted Newspapers
theperfectresponse.pages.tcnj.edu image By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists. The historic 20-year nosedive of the U.S. newspaper industry, shedding 77 percent of its jobs, is usually b…
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December 10, 2024 at 8:46 PM