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Chinese media should hold AI systems and their proponents accountable through their reporting, but limited newsroom budgets and a lack of talent are reducing their chances of doing so. In 2019, my research partners and I began to track popular news stories about artificial intelligence on Chinese social media to answer two questions: What aspects of AI and algorithmic systems have been on the radar of Chinese journalists, and what journalistic techniques do they use in their reporting? After four years of research and sifting through hundreds of news stories on WeChat, China’s leading social media app, we got mixed results. On the positive side, we found that the rise of AI has opened a space for critical journalism in China, enabling investigations into the tech’s overarching impact on work and private life. On the other hand, we found very limited use of advanced techniques to explain to readers the power, mistakes and biases of AI algorithms – what researchers call “algorith
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