{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Brian Chau - How AI is Reinventing Investigative Journalism (Ep. 326)","description":"Brian Chau, founder of Effort News, joins Infinite Loops to explore how AI could fundamentally reshape investigative journalism\u2014not by writing articles, but by searching, analyzing, and connecting millions of legal, financial, and government records that humans could never examine manually.  Show Notes  Brian Chau &amp;amp; Effort News  Effort News \u2014 Brian Chau\u2019s document-led investigative journalism publication, using AI to search and analyze large datasets while keeping the reporting and final writing human-reviewed. Effort News About Effort News \u2014 More on Brian\u2019s approach to AI-assisted investigative reporting and the publication\u2019s editorial principles. About Effort News Effort\u2019s Null Results \u2014 Investigations where Effort searched the available evidence but found no newsworthy result. Null Results Brian Chau on X \u2014 @brianchau57. Follow Brian on X  Investigations Discussed  The $1.2B Refugee Services Program that Funds Pro-Asylum Religious Groups \u2014 Effort\u2019s investigation into federal refugee-resettlement grants and the organizations receiving them. Read the investigation The 19th-Century Family Fortunes Funding Degrowth \u2014 Effort\u2019s investigation tracing funding for Partners for a New Economy through donor-side disclosures and the Swiss Philanthropy Foundation. Read the investigation Partners for a New Economy (P4NE) \u2014 The philanthropic fund discussed in Brian\u2019s explanation of tracing obscured donor funding. P4NE Swiss Philanthropy Foundation \u2014 The organization that hosts P4NE\u2019s pooled philanthropic fund.  Swiss Philanthropy Foundation on P4NE How to Go Viral on the New X Algorithm \u2014 Effort\u2019s analysis of X\u2019s open-source recommendation algorithm, which Jim references near the end of the conversation. Read the investigation Freedom Fuel Network \u2014 Brian discusses Effort\u2019s then-upcoming investigation into the mysterious network of discounted gas stations in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Effort has since published its findings, Who Supplies Freedom Fuel?, on its site. Effort News  Books, Essays &amp;amp; Projects Mentioned  Vesuvius Challenge \u2014 The project using machine learning, computer vision, and advanced scanning to read carbonized scrolls from Herculaneum without physically opening them. Vesuvius Challenge The Camp of the Saints \u2014 Jean Raspail \u2014 The 1973 novel Brian and Jim discuss while talking about how AI-generated writing has changed the way readers perceive older literary styles.  The Camp of the Saints Influence \u2014 Robert Cialdini \u2014 Cialdini\u2019s work on persuasion, referenced during the discussion of why large language models can be effective persuaders.  Influence: Science and Practice What the Tortoise Said to Achilles \u2014 Lewis Carroll \u2014 Carroll\u2019s 1895 dialogue about logic and infinite regress, discussed alongside Agrippa\u2019s trilemma.  Read the essay On Liberty \u2014 John Stuart Mill \u2014 Mill\u2019s defense of liberty and free expression, which Brian critiques during the episode\u2019s discussion of classical liberalism, consensus, and free speech. Read On Liberty  &amp;nbsp; ","author_name":"Infinite Loops","author_url":"https:\/\/infiniteloopspodcast.com\/","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/42647735\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/205819825"}