A task performed by News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists
Select material most pertinent to presentation, and organize this material into appropriate formats.
Technically, much of it, experts rate AI capability 3.5/5, but workers don't want it automated (desire 2.8/5). It's an Automation Red Light: proceed with care.
Do you want this task automated?
How much the people who do this task want AI to take it over (avg of 5 workers).
How capable experts rate current AI at this task (avg of 2 experts).
How much human involvement should stay?
The Human Agency Scale (H1–H5) captures how much human direction workers think this task should keep.
Why workers feel the way they do
- It's repetitive40%
- Helps handle larger scale40%
- Frees up time for higher-value work20%
How to automate this
Doable with technology, but keep a person clearly in charge.
Creative & strategic work
Hard to fully automate. Use AI as a fast first draft, not the final word.
- 1Use AI to generate options and rough drafts when you select material most pertinent to presentation, and organize this material into appropriate formats, then shape them yourself.
- 2Keep templates and swipe files so you start faster.
- 3Automate the production steps around the creative core, not the core itself.
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This is 1 of 10 tasks studied for News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists, where workers want 10% of tasks automated.
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