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World News Media Congress opens in Taipei, returns to Asia after 10 years – Focus Taiwan appeared on focustaiwan.tw by Focus Taiwan – CNA English News.
Taipei, June 28 (CNA) The World News Media Congress being held in Taiwan is a show of support for democracy and free press in the country, Fernando de Yarza, president of the event’s main organizer, said at the opening in Taipei Wednesday.
“To be in Taiwan in 2023 is a statement supporting democracy and free press at the time of heightened international tension,” said de Yarza, president of the World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), adding that “the world press shows its support by coming to Taiwan.”
“We of course are right here at the moment of great importance for Taiwan, the region and indeed the world,” he said, adding tensions across the Taiwan Strait have put “all those who care for [the] democratic way of life very much on a high alert.”
“The right of the Taiwanese people to choose their destiny, determine their future, [and] live in peace is something those of us visiting from afar can recognize as being vital to maintain,” he added.
The three-day congress, being held for the first time in Taiwan, brings together more than 900 leaders in journalism and news media organizations from 58 countries to discuss common challenges and share ideas.
The event, held in Asia for the first time since Thailand hosted the 2013 edition, opened with media leaders expressing concern over the implications of artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies on the flow of information across the world.
While AI tools such as ChatGPT could be game-changing in the newsroom, they could also be “potentially catastrophic,” de Yarza said, adding people in the media circle must not “repeat the mistakes of the past — a rush to embrace new technology without considering the implications.”
Philippines-born Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Angelita Ressa, meanwhile, said in her speech at the opening that AI was one of the least regulated industries globally despite warnings from tech leaders of the potential risks of not having control over the technology.
This technology could be “weaponized” and used against democratic societies by mining private data or spreading false information, she said, adding “the corruption of our information system leads to the corruption of our democracy.”
It is “not a freedom-of-speech issue, but a safety issue,” said Ressa, co-founder of Filipino online news media Rappler, warning that inaction by democratic countries would lead to significant harms.
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