AI coverage 1, Climate coverage 0: In comparison to AI, climate change barely received any media coverage as of late. open.substack.com/pub/felixsim...
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Felix M. Simon
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Researcher with public evidence across AI research.
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Research Fellow in AI, Information & News, Reuters Institute, Oxford University | Research Associate, Oxford Internet Institute | Junior Research Fellow, Corpus Christi College | AI, (mis)info, news, democracy | My views etc…
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AI coverage 1, Climate coverage 0 felixsimon.substack.com
Séb Krier (@sebkrier) on X x.com
What news organisations say they want to use AI for, 2022 vs 2026 felixsimon.substack.com
AI coverage 1, Climate coverage 0 felixsimon.substack.com
Are UK media ignoring AI? felixsimon.substack.com
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Yes, lots of details are murky and we shouldn't jump to conclusions (good take from Google DeepMind's Séb Krier here: x.com/sebkrier/sta...).
For four years, AI has reigned supreme – and lots of news organisations have jumped on the bandwagon/caught on/thought deeply about how they, too, could make use of it. What do they (want to) use it for? Increasingly for content creation. Full post here: open.substack.com/pub/…
At the start of the year I took a quick look at climate change and AI in media coverage. At the time, it seemed like climate change had fallen by the wayside, despite the urgency of the threat of a rapidly warming planet. As of June 2026, not much has changed felixsimon.substa…
Post here: open.substack.com/pub/felixsim... TL/DR: to follow below.
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A thought sparked by Google’s IO: AI as it is deployed increasingly really tethers us more closely to information but mediated through the largest platforms (here Google) – it really is a centralisation of information that we are seeing.
Against my better judgment, I wrote something short on the claim that UK news isn't paying enough attention to the Claude Fable quagmire and AI more broadly.
One of the interesting epistemic side-effects of AI diffusion to me is the two-tier system that seems to have emerged around it in terms of information access/quality and people’s perception of what AI can(not) do as a result.
✨ 🤖 A brief summary of the AI findings of the Digital News Report 2026, a 48-country survey of news use and attitudes, now out by the @reutersinstitute.bsky.social.
Last summer, I co-organised a small symposium on AI agents which in light of the OpenAI/Hugging face news feels prescient. Some quotes from the symposium report: "Several of those present argued that many of the most pressing risks are systemic."
Not entirely sure I agree with everything argued in this short commentary pre-print on AI slop, but I do think the authors get one thing right: It’s too easy to dismiss AI slop.
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