Peter Kloeppel: AI cannot replace real journalists

• Bitkom President Dr. Ralf Wintergerst talks to Peter Kloeppel in a podcast about current developments in the digital world

Berlin, 21 May 2024 - How has digitalization changed television? What role will artificial intelligence play in journalism in the future? What is the danger of deepfakes and targeted disinformation in the US election campaign? Peter Kloeppel has been in the media business for over 40 years and was chief presenter of RTL Aktuell for more than 30 years. In a new episode of the podcast “Wintergerst meets...”, he talks to Bitkom President Dr. Ralf Wintergerst about his experiences in the media world, the transformation of the industry, the role of social media in the information business and the opportunities presented by AI. He is “convinced that we will need traditional people for many, many years to come, who will help us with their traditional intelligence, their human intelligence and everything that happens in our brains much more than artificial intelligence can.”

The podcast is now available on all major podcast platforms. In “Wintergerst meets...”, Bitkom President Dr. Ralf Wintergerst talks to personalities from politics and society, business and science about current developments in the digital world.

The podcast can be found on the Bitkom website: https://www.bitkom.org/mediathek/podcasts/Ralf-Wintergerst-trifft-Peter-Kloeppel