The A.I. system, called RADAR (Reporters And Data And Robots), comes from Google’s Digital News Initiative. The system is currently sold as a “tool” for human journalists to use to generate local news “story templates” based on data gathered from “government departments, local councils and NHS trusts.”

As reported by recode, “Radar aims to automate local reporting with large public databases from government agencies or local law enforcement…”

As reported by the Guardian, RADAR will “…auto-generate graphics, video and pictures to add to stories.”

Facebook and Google have been heavily investing in artificial intelligence. Google announced last year that it opened an AI research center in China.

It was recently revealed that Google has been working on a censored version of its search engine in China, called project Dragonfly. As Ryan Gallagher reports, The engine will block “…terms about human rights, democracy, religion, and peaceful protest.”

Will Google’s RADAR A.I. system sift through only “approved” pools of data for stories?

Robots don’t question their programmers.

As big tech continues to push for censorship, the public needs to be aware of this technology. An A.I. driven news writing system, created by an establishment corporation like Google, should raise serious red flags. Our perceptions are increasingly being shaped by artificial intelligence and algorithms.