GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC—Professor Paloma Mohamed, Vice Chancellor of the College of Guyana (UG), mentioned Friday that rising applied sciences are fracturing public discourse, enabling highly effective actors to regulate narratives and marginalize reality.
I’m addressing the two-day Media Summit hosted by the Media Institute of the Caribbean (MIC) in collaboration with the UG and the Guyana Press Affiliation (GPA). It’s being held beneath the theme “Evolving Media Enterprise Fashions in Turbulent Instances.”
“We’re not simply dropping management of the newsroom. We’re dropping the very thought of actuality. Artificial details, deepfakes, personalised algorithms, they’re not simply instruments; they’re weapons of distortion,” Mohammed informed the summit’s opening ceremony, which is being held just about and in particular person.
She known as for a reinvention of the media ecosystem, noting that rising applied sciences are fracturing public discourse, enabling highly effective actors to regulate narratives and marginalize reality.
“Media is now not only a mirror of society. It’s a battleground. Suppose we don’t struggle for reality now. In that case, we threat turning into complicit in our obsolescence,” she informed the individuals, describing the present media panorama as one affected by a “artificial data system” the place synthetic intelligence (AI) generated content material, clickbait tradition, and influencer-driven misinformation collide to drown out credible journalism.
“It’s not nearly velocity or attain. It’s about accountability. Journalism have to be the ethical compass in a disoriented world,” she informed the ceremony.
The summit is sponsored by ExxonMobil, Caribbean Airways, and the United Nations Guyana. The agenda consists of points reminiscent of information journalism, digital income fashions, media literacy, and AI security.
MIC president Kiran Maharaj mentioned the newsroom’s operations have to be rethought, whereas GPA president Nazima Raghubir warned that conventional media is beneath siege, significantly from technological and political pressures.
“We’re contending with a digital tsunami. And it’s forcing media entities to innovate, usually with few sources, whereas nonetheless being anticipated to uphold the very best requirements of journalism.”
