RT Journal Article
T1 An Alien in the Newsroom: AI Anxiety in European and American Newspapers
A1 Sanguinetti, Pablo
A1 Palomo-Torres, María Bella
K1 Inteligencia artificial
K1 Ansiedad
K1 Periodismo
AB The media portrayal of artificial intelligence (AI) directly impacts how audiences conceptualizethis technology and, therefore, its use, development, and regulation. This study aims to measurea key aspect of this problem: the feeling of AI anxiety conveyed by news outlets that represent thistechnology as a sort of “alien” that is autonomous, opaque, and independent of humans. To doso, we build an AI anxiety index based on principal component analysis (PCA) and apply it to acorpus of headlines (n = 1682) about AI published before and after the launch of ChatGPT in tennewspapers: The New York Times, The Guardian, El País, Le Monde, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, SanFrancisco Chronicle, Manchester Evening News, La Voz de Galicia, Ouest France, and Münchner Merkur.The results show that ChatGPT not only boosted the number of AI headlines (× 5.16) but also reducedpositive sentiments (−26.46%) and increased negatives (58.84%). The AI anxiety index also grew(10.59%), albeit driven by regional media (61.41%), while it fell in national media (−6.82%). Finally,the discussion of the variables that compose the index reveals the opportunities and challenges facedby national and regional media in avoiding the feeling of AI anxiety.
PB Social Sciences
YR 2024
FD 2024-11-07
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/36706
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/36706
LA eng
NO Sanguinetti, Pablo, and Bella Palomo. 2024. An Alien in the Newsroom: AI Anxiety in European and American Newspapers. Social Sciences 13: 608. https://doi.org/ 10.3390/socsci13110608
NO This article is part of the project: “Journalistic Applications of AI to MitigateDisinformation: Trends, Uses, and Perceptions of Professionals and Audiences” (PID2023-147486OBI00).We would like to thank Ivan Logrosan Tercero for his assessment in statistiscal analysis.
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 22 ene 2026