Associated Press to use robots to write stories

The Associated Press hopes to introduce an automation technology that will allow it to publish more breaking business stories and a larger number of earnings reports.

Using the technology, the news outlet said, it will be able to go from producing 300 stories to as many as 4,400 stories in "roughly the same time that it took our reporters."

The AP stressed the new technology would not lead to job cuts. Rather, it would free journalists up to do less data processing, according to the Huffington Post.

"This is about using technology to free journalists to do more journalism and less data processing, not about eliminating jobs," the AP said. "Most of the staff has been receptive to the effort and involved for the past few months of discussion."

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