Christopher Brennan has been a journalist for a decade, reporting from more than 10 countries including his native U.S and appearing in outlets such as the BBC World Service, France 24 and NY Daily News. While covering tech in Brussels he became increasingly focused on data and starting in 2019 became involved in building AI models to differentiate between news articles in a more qualitative way, not just on engagement metrics such as clicks. He thinks that sorting through the web-based on smarter, qualitative signals will become increasingly important as AI is used to create huge portions of what we see and read.