‘Like nailing jell-o to a wall’: Why unions are struggling to protect journalists’ rights in the age of AI

Insights from union leaders in the US, Greece and the Philippines on how they are grappling with the dilemmas posed by an ever-evolving technology

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Will AI come for my job? This is the question at the heart of AI anxieties across many industries right now. 

For journalists, this question is constantly being re-pondered and re-examined as more companies are incorporating AI into their workflows. AI can help with research and background. It can do transcriptions and translations, generate illustrations, and produce podcasts with non-human hosts. It can now even write and edit pieces itself. 

And yet AI-related job cuts in journalism seem to be marginal for now. Around two-thirds of the media managers we surveyed for our Trends and Predictions report said they haven’t cut any jobs due to AI. This might be starting to change. 

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