New York Times Hires Editorial Director for Artificial Intelligence

The New York Times is doing more than exploring the use of artificial intelligence, it has now hired an editorial director to take the reins of the emerging technology.

“I’m joining The New York Times as editorial director for artificial-intelligence initiatives,” Zach Seward, the co-founder of Quartz, said in a LinkedIn post Tuesday. “I’ll be leading a new team that will experiment with internal and reader-facing applications of generative AI and other machine-learning techniques.”

Seward will be taking on questions like how the news outlet’s journalism can benefit from generative AI technologies and where its journalists should “draw the red lines around where we won’t use it,” Times leadership said in a memo to staff.