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AI in PR shifts from experimentation to implementation
We’ve passed the stage of AI experimentation in public relations. The hard work of integrating AI into workflows and determining the impact on the future of practice and society is underway.
Status report: artificial intelligence (AI) in public relations
The impact of AI on public relations is set to be transformative for public relations practice, but it will demand updated practitioner capabilities.
Understanding the impact of AI on public relations
A new Wadds Inc. management paper for corporate communicators and public relations practitioners highlights the impact of AI and what you should be doing about it.
AI skills and knowledge shortfall in public relations
The CIPR Artificial Intelligence in Public Relations Panel makes five recommendations for the public relations industry to get to grips the impact of AI on society and the profession.
AI Ethics guide foresaw “mutant” A Level algorithm
The CIPR and CPRS has published a best practice guide to the ethical application of artificial intelligence. It’s important work.
The AI tool chasm in PR
A new CIPR #AIinPR project finds that AI tool vendors are not addressing the PR market. Tool adoption is almost entirely limited to automation tools.
Meet Replika my AI chatbot friend
I broke up with an AI chatbot called Isabel. The future of PR may need to include managing artificial relationships.
Practitioners must get ahead of AI
Skills, bias and transparency are critical issues for AI in PR.
PR lags professions in tackling impact of AI on practice and workforce
A literature review published by the CIPR finds that PR lags other professions including HR and management consultancy in getting to grips with AI. It highlights key issues that need to be urgently tackled.
#AIinPR panel calls for contributions to literature review ahead of report launch at Turing Institute
Professor Anne Gregory has led a CIPR AIinPR project over the last 12 months to review the impact of AI on professional occupations including PR. Kerry Sheehan is the panel’s new leader.
How to communicate about AI
Ethics, employee engagement and wider stakeholder management are the three pillars of the CBI’s report AI: Ethics into practice.
CIPR kicks off #AIinPR Primer series with introductory guide to AI
A new series of guides explores artificial intelligence (AI) in public relations practice. They're published by the CIPR #AIinPR panel.
Automation threatens a quarter of marketing and PR jobs, ONS report
Women, young people, and those who work part-time are most likely to work in roles that are at high risk of automation.
Artificial Intelligence: Lack of knowledge in marketing and PR is an ethical issue
The hype surrounding AI is unhelpful. Professional communicators act ethically and improve their knowledge.
PRs and communicators should to learn to love AI
Understand and use AI the right way, learn to love what it can do for you in comms, and it will be an essential ally in your work.
Tackling the impact of technology and AI on PR
The march of technology in PR is undeniable. Here’s a plan for embracing innovation in your organisation.
An analysis of the impact of AI on skills in PR
A new report published by the CIPR examines how much of what we do in public relations is threatened by technology. It’s an important piece of work.
#AIinPR group publishes crowdsourced PR tool database. What's missing?
The drive by the CIPR’s #AIinPR panel to characterise the tools used by the public relations profession is gathering pace.
Seeking tech savvy public relations practitioners to help explore impact of AI
The CIPR #AIinPR panel has crowdsourced a growing list of tools and begun the process of benchmarking a scale of PR tech. Our next job is to determine the impact of tech on skills. Could you help?