Soon-Shiong revealed more about the artificial intelligence-powered tool he plans to have displayed at the top of some articles in an interview with his outlet published Sunday. The meter he hinted was coming next year will be powered by an “augmented intelligence” patent Soon-Shiong created over the course of his career in medicine.
“We need to be that middle-of-the-road, trustworthy source,” Soon-Shiong said. “The only way you can survive is not be an echo chamber of one side.”
Besides giving readers a sense of which direction columns, op-eds, and editorials lean, Soon-Shiong said he would use the technology to review the last 50 years of Los Angeles Times opinion content and let readers see which way it has leaned. The technology will also compile items that lean in the opposite direction so readers can click through to read opposing viewpoints directly from…