If journalists truly think AI is going to supplant them, then I suppose in a way, journalism is already dead. An AI can spew out coherent - and often outright incorrect - sentences with all the sensationalism you want, and without having any kind of moral compass of its own.
Journalism is meant to be unbiased, factual, fact-checked reporting. An AI can't fact check, because an AI does not truly comprehend sentences, let alone interpersonal relationships, politics, or any advancement in any scientific field. An AI is biased by whoever puts together the initial framework and their motives, and the vast quantities of (ironically, often auto generated) training data it scrapes from the internet.
It kinda feels like actual journalism died shortly after the Snowden leaks, that journalists felt all the facts would come to them -- or maybe it's just upper management once again optimising for clicks and ad revenue. I'm not sure the distinction really matters any more.
