AI is automatically writing millions of news articles about government meetings
“Well, every public meeting that's recorded and uploaded to any website, go.gov website or a Facebook whatever.”
to understand what's going on in your local state and federal government. So how do we do that? Well, every public meeting that's recorded and uploaded to any website, go.gov website or a Facebook whatever. We transcribe all the words spoken in every formal public meeting. And then there's a news engine that we launched earlier this year that takes every major topic discussed in every public meeting and writes an article about it as if a journalist had been sitting in the room. It's very objective. It quotes people who said what, how did the debate end, what was the vote. And so millions of news articles are being written every year,
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Paul Allen explains how his platform uses AI to transcribe every public government meeting and automatically generates objective news articles about the discussions. The system creates millions of articles annually, acting like journalists sitting in on local, state, and federal meetings to make government more transparent and accessible.
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This reveals a specific, scalable AI application that's already generating millions of outputs and solving a real civic problem.
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