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Laurens Vreekamp has a way of saying things that stay with you.

Like when he talks about journalists who say they don't want to use AI, and gently points out that they already are. Every time they unlock their phone. Every time they use Google Translate or let Spotify choose the next song. AI is already woven into daily life.

So, there's the practical side, how we use AI in our daily work. But there's an equally important task that often gets overlooked: how we report on AI itself.

Here, Laurens keeps it simple. Good AI reporting requires the same thing as any quality journalism: asking who benefits, seeking diverse voices, and thinking critically about claims that sound too good, or too scary, to be true.

Laurens is a journalist and educator. He founded the Future Journalism Today Academy and has trained thousands of journalists across Europe, not just in how to use AI tools, but in how to think critically about them.

In this episode, we talk about the stories that get lost when AI coverage is driven by press releases. About the people who should be quoted but rarely are. About what it really means to use AI responsibly when you're understaffed and overstretched. And about why the saved time matters less than what you choose to do with it.

To help prepare this episode's introduction and transcript, we used Claude, an AI tool developed by Anthropic, under careful human supervision. Everything was fact-checked and polished by our team before publication. Transparency is important to us.