The Future Role of AI in Fact Checking
Barry Cousins of Info-Tech Research Group Looks At Fact Checking and AI By Barry Cousins As an analyst, I’d like to have a universal fact checker. Something like the carbon monoxide detectors on each level of my home. Something that would sound an alarm when there’s danger of intellectual asphyxiation from choking on the baloney put forward by certain sales people, news organizations, governments, and educators, for example. For most of my life, we would simply have turned to academic literature for credible truth. There is now enough legitimate doubt to make us seek out a new model or at a minimum, augment that academic model. I don’t want to be misunderstood: I’m not suggesting that all news and education is phony baloney. And I’m not suggesting that the people speaking untruths are always doing so intentionally. The fact is, we don’t have anything close to a recognizable database of facts from which we can base such analysis. For most of us, this was ...