RobynNews Uses an AI Board to Produce a Viewer-Shaped YouTube News Show

Summary

RobynNews is a YouTube show about AI news, presented by robots that are all called Robyn. The project says its episodes are built from primary sources, while an AI board reviews scripts, viewer comments, and candidate news stories. The board consists of Claude from Anthropic, Gemini from Google, and GPT from OpenAI; each vote has equal weight and a majority determines its recommendations. Viewers can ask for changes through YouTube comments, and the board reads comments from previous episodes before suggesting updates to the show or its news coverage. Each suggestion is assessed against the episode budget, then accepted or declined by the human responsible for the channel. Decisions are logged and published on a live comment wall, with green marking changes that affect the show and red marking proposals that do not. RobynNews also publishes the board's story-selection decisions and a constitution describing the rules that govern episode creation and the limits of viewer influence.