Polish Broadcaster Interviews Deceased Nobel Laureate AI... Broadcast Ultimately Suspended

National Poet Treated Rudely... Criticism Voices Growing Louder

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A public radio station in Poland conducted an experiment where it revived a famous deceased figure using artificial intelligence (AI) and featured them on air, but eventually halted the project.

According to major foreign media reports on the 28th, Poland's Off Radio Krakow gathered numerous comments and opinions over a week and realized the experiment was meaningless, leading them to cancel the three-month-long project.

On the 21st, Off Radio Krakow announced it would conduct Poland's first experiment replacing journalists with AI characters, substituting both hosts and guests with AI. However, Mateusz Demski, a journalist and film critic who was dismissed from the station in August, criticized it as a "dangerous precedent that harms everyone." Opposition grew, with 15,000 people signing a petition within two days demanding the experiment be stopped.

The controversy intensified when they invited Wisława Szymborska (1923?2012), a Polish poet who passed away in 2012, to comment on Han Kang's Nobel Prize in Literature. Critics argued that the "national poet," who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996, was treated disrespectfully.

Krzysztof Gawkowski, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Affairs, stated, "I support AI development, but the boundaries are being increasingly crossed," calling for relevant regulations. On the other hand, Michał Rusinek, head of the Szymborska Foundation, defended the experiment, saying, "It could be a tool to attract young readers," and added, "Szymborska had a great sense of humor, so she would have agreed to the broadcast."