Researcher: "Artificial intelligence will take over journalism within five years"

This is how artificial intelligence will shape the world leading up to 2030, according to Morten Goodwin.

Professor Morten Goodwin in the podcast Kunstig intelligens.

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Walter Norman Wehus COMMUNICATIONS ADVISER

Presented by: University of Agder

Published 27 February 2025 - 00:01

“What we know today as newspapers will largely not exist in five years. Instead of editors, journalists, or analysts, we will have hyper-personalised news created for us by artificial intelligence.”

This is one of the predictions made by Professor Morten Goodwin.

Maren Thormodsæther Lyngroth and Morten Goodwin are behind the Norwegian podcast Kunstig intelligens.

“If someone wants to have news framed politically towards the right or left, they will get it. Of course, this is not a positive development, but we will see artificial intelligence dominate the news landscape with such bubbles,” says Goodwin.

In a recent episode of the Norwegian podcast Kunstig intelligens, Goodwin speaks with researcher Jahn Thomas Fidje from the University of Agder's Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research.

Together, they make ten predictions about how artificial intelligence will develop in the years leading up to 2030.

1. The first AI-created blockbuster will be a success

A film where artificial intelligence creates the script, animation, and music will not only be a curiosity, but a commercial success.

2. AI-driven evolution

Artificial intelligence will be used to design creatures – from microorganisms that can capture CO₂ or eat plastic waste to allergy-friendly pets free of hereditary diseases.

3. The brain and machine become one

Direct communication between the human brain and artificial intelligence will be possible. Humans will be able to transfer information just by thinking or receive help from AI chips to think.

4. The machine interprets your dreams

A new technology will measure your brain activity while you sleep and allow you to play back your dreams like a movie.

5. New tests to detect AI

Tests designed to distinguish artificial from human intelligence are called Turing tests. By 2030, we will need new such tests, focusing on areas that today’s artificial intelligence still finds challenging. These could include emotional intelligence or certain types of logical problem-solving.

6. AI-driven warfare takes over

War will no longer be about traditional military forces but about cyberattacks, autonomous drones, and information warfare. In a new AI arms race, China will have the lead, but the US will catch up with a project modelled after the Manhattan Project, which led to the atomic bomb.

7. Robots clean up the oceans

Self-driving robots controlled by artificial intelligence will collect plastic in the world’s oceans.

8. Artificial intelligence edits our genes

By combining artificial intelligence with CRISPR technology to edit genes, we will have entirely new possibilities to create both designer babies and biologically enhanced humans.

9. Artificial intelligence will have a formal role in politics

Politicians and bureaucrats will rely much more on algorithms than they do today. Perhaps a future government will have artificial intelligence in an advisory role?

The Norwegian podcast episode can be listened to below:

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Read the Norwegian version of this article on forskning.no