AI news anchors are exactly what you don’t need in your fact-based, news-starved life

Like many people from boomers to millennials, I grew up watching Walter Cronkite deliver the news and witnessing his childlike joy at a human walking on the moon and profound grief at having to confirm reports that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Cronkite delivered the news but with a human touch. Now, Channel1.ai wants me to divorce news from its humanity and accept daily reports from human-like AI.That’s gonna be a hard no.Look, I can see the appeal

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