AI Engineer
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Kevin Hoffman is a Philadelphia resident whose passion spans food, coffee, and human-centered technologies. Since joining The Philadelphia Inquirer in 2024, Kevin has worked on developing AI tools for assisting the newsroom with editorial workflows as an AI Engineer. His focus is on developing an internal archive research assistant that gives reporters a conversational way to search across decades of coverage. He continues to experiment with AI in content recommendation and aggregation systems. Through consistent collaboration with colleagues across the newsroom, Kevin has emphasized ways for AI to aid reporting without encroaching on distinctly human tasks--grounding his work in explainable AI that lends agency to journalists.
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