09/02/2025
Curating the Curators: How AI and Humans Collaborate to Select and Distribute News | Ted Skinner | AI-Weekly
https://ai-weekly.ai/curating-the-curators-ted-skinner/
Here, Ted Skinner argues that in today's hyper-speed media environment, AI supercharges news curation by monitoring sources in real time, classifying topics, gauging sentiment, and auto-summarizing at scale — but it can't reliably grasp nuance. Because sarcasm, mixed tone, source credibility, and low-velocity yet high-impact stories are easy to misread, he advocates a human-in-the-loop workflow where algorithms triage the firehose and editors validate context, refine tags and summaries, and feed corrections back to the models.
He distinguishes forecasting from judgment: predictive systems can flag likely-to-trend stories, but only domain experts can decide “does this matter to us?” As a case in point, Fullintel blends its PredictiveAI™ and Hub platform with human editors to deliver briefings, alerts, and insights tailored to client priorities. The core takeaway: AI is the infrastructure—speed, scale, signal detection—while people are the interpreters of consequence; even as models improve, relevance is situational and reputation fragile, so AI won't replace human judgment so much as give it leverage.
