‘AI Snake Oil’ author sees chatbots evolving into a ‘truth oracle’—and journalism heading somewhere it hasn’t been in 200 years

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Princeton's Arvind Narayanan asked the Computation + Journalism conference to prepare for AI "not as it is today, but as it will be" in five to 10 years.

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  • Princeton's Arvind Narayanan asked the Computation + Journalism conference to prepare for AI "not as it is today, but as it will be" in five to 10 years.
  • Reported by Fortune and published Tue, 06 Oct 2026 17:25:23 UTC.

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  1. ‘AI Snake Oil’ author sees chatbots evolving into a ‘truth oracle’—and journalism heading somewhere it hasn’t been in 200 years

  2. Asos warns customer data may be compromised after ‘unauthorised’ app access

  3. Asos confirms hackers sent 'unauthorised' notification to app users

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