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Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Agent of change

Gamechanger ?  BBC DG Tim Davie got an hour of coverage on the UK-dangly-bit of BBC World News this morning, for his speech at the Lowry in Salford, entitled The BBC - A Catalyst for Building Trust. 

In word score, 'trust' hits 53; 'jeopardy' only got one outing. "Agentic AI" got three - yet no explanation pops up when you search the BBC website with that phrase.  Unpick this, dear reader; "We want to empower audiences as they seek answers - combining agentic AI with trusted BBC journalism to create a new gold standard fact checking tool."

New stuff ?  Something about 'supercharging' Salford; a renewed bid for £400m p.a. to fund World Service entirely from taxation, promising a global reach of 1 billion; Artificial Intelligence bots to help with school exam revision and parenting; more 'local democracy' reporters funded, more 'investigative' reporters hired around the regions; and a sort of BBC Chromecast, as, presumably, tv transmitters are switched off in the next decade. 


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