Opinion | Ex-Google director: The real wolf menacing the news business is AI

Jim Albrecht was senior director of news ecosystem products at Google from 2017 to 2023.

The news publishing industry has always reviled new technology, whether it was radio or television, the internet or, now, generative artificial intelligence. After all, newspapers long had a monopoly on the distribution of information, and each innovation pared back the exclusiveness of that franchise.