“I’m pretty excited about it. I think it’s newsroom 3.0,” he said.

Lewis added that the Post would be “embracing AI in a much more effective way.”

The CEO was optimistic he would not have to further “cut costs” at the Post after the company recently shrank newsroom operations, offering voluntary buyouts to some 240 employees.

“I’m here to grow the business,” he told Semafor, acknowledging additional financial support offered by the newspaper’s owner, billionaire Jeff Bezos.

“When any journalist’s job goes, it’s more than sad, right?” Lewis said of the spate of industry layoffs.