"If the goal is speed and the cost is accuracy and accountability, AI is the clear winner. If accuracy and accountability is the baseline, then AI, as used in these instances, cannot yet rival the hallmarks of human output,"
"This ruling is a clear affirmation that AI cannot be deployed as a shortcut around union rights, ethical journalism, or human judgment,"
"This is a win for our members at Politico fighting to ensure that AI strengthens our newsroom rather than undermining it."
An arbitrator found that Politico management breached negotiated contract safeguards when it rolled out two AI-powered editorial products. Contract terms required management to provide the union 60 days to bargain over any AI that materially and substantively impacted members' job duties. The contract also required that AI used for newsgathering meet Politico's standards of journalistic ethics and involve human oversight. The arbitrator concluded that the products violated both bargaining and ethical oversight requirements and that speed at the expense of accuracy and accountability demonstrated current AI limits in matching human journalistic standards. Forty-three NewsGuild-CWA contracts included AI language as of September.
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