A Portland radio station DJ is A.I.

(JUNE 30, 2023) A new radio station in Portland has a new DJ. A DJ is a person who plays music on the radio. However, this new DJ is not a person. It's a computer DJ called AI Ashley.  AI means "artificial intelligence". That means the computer seems very human. 

AI Ashley is the first DJ of its kind in the whole world. AI Ashley sounds like a real radio host named Ashley Elzinga. The people who made AI Ashley worked on it for a long time with Ashley's help.

AI Ashley can give news updates for Portland all day long. But Ashley, who lives in Michigan, can't do that. The radio station doesn't want to replace Ashley with AI Ashley. The radio station just wants to have both of them. 

Some people worry that AI might take away people's jobs. They think it might make many jobs disappear. But AI can also do good things and help us with new ideas.

The federal government made a plan for AI and said we need to use it in a good and safe way. Ashley wants people to know that there are good people working on AI and they want to use it for fun and good things. She says, "There are good people who are working really, really hard on this new and fresh thing who do not mean to use it for bad. We want to use it for good. And this can be fun, this can be exciting."

AI Ashley is on Live 95.5 FM radio station.