PUTRAJAYA: The future of professional journalism is in safe hands despite the fast growth of artificial intelligence (AI), says Fahmi Fadzil.

The Communications Minister said that the human factor of interacting between people is an important part of being a journalist, something AI is unable to replicate.

"Journalists can never become redundant. While AI is able to churn out professional articles quickly, it lacks the personal connection and touch that only human journalists are able to incorporate into stories.

"This includes things such as being able to have personal one-to-one interviews and the ability to express unique experiences when they travel to the site of the story.

"AI, for most part, is only able to write about 60% of an article based on facts as the remaining parts can only be filled by the human mind with its emotions and personal experiences," he said in a press conference here on Tuesday (Feb 20).

Fahmi suggested that journalists utilise AI to reduce their workload by helping to craft better stories and verify facts faster and easier.

To this, he said he plans to hold discussions with the Malaysian Press Institute to create more AI training sessions and modules for journalists in the country.