Leonid Bershidsky is putting AI into Bloomberg’s newsroom. He says the technology belongs ‘in the servants’ quarters.’

Leonid Bershidsky, former editor-in-chief of Vedomosti and Smart Money and a veteran of Newsweek and Forbes' Russian editions, is now integrating AI into Bloomberg's newsroom while maintaining that the technology belongs 'in the servants' quarters' rather than the main house of journalism. He discussed the role in a lengthy interview with Elizaveta Osetinskaya, a former colleague, covering his career, his fiction writing, and his views on Orwell.

The interview itself arrives translated from Russian by an AI model, a detail Meduza discloses upfront, with a human editor reviewing the draft before publication — a small irony given the subject at hand. No further detail on Bershidsky's specific AI deployment at Bloomberg was provided beyond the servants'-quarters framing.

The full dispatch is available from the source below.