Abstract

Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies are transforming the News Media Industries (Nmis), but are also posing unprecedented challenges to individual and collective freedoms, and to the news media’s role in democratic societies. Despite the deployment of AI-driven tools being mostly experimental and unevenly distributed across European news media, this paper sees the need to inquire into the opportunities and challenges of the translation of European proposals of AI regulation in and through the media. Namely, news media operations, and through large online platforms. Methodologically, this paper comprises the reviewing of European proposals for AI regulation, alongside the scholarly literature on journalistic agency and media transparency and accountability. The theoretical critique addressed in this paper opens up new avenues for empirical investigations of the complex interplay amongst AI, news media and (media) policy.