NEW: Top Newspaper Plans To Add AI-Powered ‘Bias Meter’ On News Stories

Los Angeles Times owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, who is currently aiming to implement a massive overhaul of the paper’s newsroom and editorial offerings, announced that stories will soon be accompanied by an AI-powered “bias meter” as part of an effort to provide readers with both sides of a story.

Soon-Shiong, the biotech billionaire who acquired the Times in 2018, generated outrage on the left when the paper refused to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential bid earlier this year. He is also making major changes to the paper’s editorial board by bringing in new conservative voices, including popular CNN commentator Scott Jennings.

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Earlier this week, Soon-Shiong told Jennings that he has been “quietly building” a bias meter “behind the scenes.” The meter, which is set to release in January, will be powered by the same augmented intelligence technology that he’s been building since 2010 for health care purposes, Soon-Shiong said.

“Somebody could understand as they read it that the source of the article has some level of bias,” he said during an appearance on Jennings’ “Flyover Country,” podcast. “And what we need to do is not have what we call confirmation bias and then that story automatically, the reader can press a button and get both sides of that exact same story based on that story and then give comments.”

The newspaper owner went on to say that the nation’s top publications have failed to separate news from opinion, something he suggested “could be the downfall of what now people call mainstream media.”

Soon-Shiong speaks at a conference in the U.K.

The comments were met with fury from the union representing hundreds of Los Angeles Times newsroom staffers, which accused Soon-Shiong of “publicly suggested his staff harbors bias, without offering evidence or examples.”

“Our members — and all Times staffers — abide by a strict set of ethics guidelines, which call for fairness, precision, transparency, vigilance against bias, and an earnest search to understand all sides of an issue,” the Los Angeles Times Guild said in a statement Thursday. “Those longstanding principles will continue guiding our work.”

The move also led to the resignation of legal affairs columnist Harry Litman, a rabid anti-Trump partisan who frequently wrote in favor of the politically-motivated prosecutions of President-elect Trump.

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