JEN_AI Challenge #16: Building Personalized Automated News Agents (and Why It Might Be a Terrible Idea)Jenni Munroe shows how to create personalized automated “news agents” and discusses AI & tech threats to journalism, partly through the lens of the recent Devil Wears Prada movie sequel which has a similar theme. She demonstrates a simple method for scheduling daily/weekly briefings in the Google Gemini app and shares experiments: a weekly fact-checking roundup of The Diary of a CEO podcast episodes, daily global headlines/markets with linked sources and audio playback, a daily AI/frontier tech briefing, a calendar/to-do morning briefing that initially hallucinated events, and a local family-activities/weather concierge. She contrasts automated roundups with human editorial voice (including Caroline Crampton’s newsletter), discusses the life imitating art imitating life in Devil Wears Prada 2 and this week's Met Gala fashion event billionaire protests, and closes with trending music picks and where to follow the show.
00:00 Intro: Exploring Automated News
00:26 What Is JEN_AI
01:06 News Agents Explained
01:43 Journalism Meets AI
03:48 Gemini Scheduled Briefings
05:11 Experiment: Podcast Fact Check
07:14 Experiment: Headlines & Markets
08:14 Experiment: AI Tech Briefing
09:15 Experiment: Personal Morning Work Briefing
09:54 Experiment: Local Concierge
10:38 More Advanced Agents
11:42 Human Curation Matters
13:06 Devil Wears Prada 2 Spoilers
17:37 Tech Billionaire & Politics Context
18:50 Movie Takeaways Teaser
20:56 Topical Tunes Soundtrack
22:15 Wrap Up, Stay In Touch
