Politico’s news room has started a legal battle with the administration on artificial intelligence

Politico has become one From the first news room last year to Win a union contract This included rules on how to publish the media outlet artificial intelligence. The Pen Syndicate, which represents Politico and its deployment, and the environment and the e & e news site, is now preparing for the first time. Syndicate members claim that the provisions of artificial intelligence in their contract have been violated, and they are preparing for a pioneering legal dispute with the administration. The result can eventually put the amount of journalists the inputs on how to use artificial intelligence in their news rooms.

Last year, Politico began publishing live news summaries created by artificial intelligence during major political events such as the Democratic National Congress and the American Presidential Vice. In this march, that First A group of artificial intelligence tools called the Intelligence Aid Policy to pay subscribers, which was built in partnership with the company, which is supported by Y Combinator. Rachel Lovler Politics Executive Described The initiative at the time “is smoothly integher with artificial intelligence with our unparalleled political experience.”

However, Union Politico members claim that these tools have violated their contract in several ways, and they take the conflict of arbitration in July. “The company must give us 60 days of any use of new technology that will essentially affect the duties of the bargaining unit,” says Ariel Whittelberg, President of E& E Public Health. The Federation claims that no notice has been given and no opportunity to bargain in good faith to start Amnesty International in Politico, and that tools usually operate by human employees.

“This is not just a dispute over the contract, it is a test if journalists have an opinion on how to use artificial intelligence in our work. With the absence of federal rules, union contracts remain one of the only implemented frameworks of artificial intelligence at the national level.” (Pen Guild is a unit inside Newsguild, one of the most prominent unions for reporters.)

Politico says that the post “takes the obligations under the collective negotiation agreement”, and “will continue to honor these obligations with the adoption of transformational technologies quickly such as artificial intelligence that will revolutionize how our fans consume news and information,” according to the spokesperson for Heather Riley.

Politico contract states that the publication needs to be used artificial intelligence in a way that tracks the company’s standards for journalistic ethics. “We are not against artificial intelligence, but it must be on the same moral and elegance standards as our political journalists,” says Ariana Skepyl, a vice president of the Federation to enforce contracts, who writes the news industry newsletter in Politico. Some members of the union are wondering whether there is always appropriate human supervision on the content of the artificial intelligence that Politico publishes.

In one case, a direct summary of artificial intelligence was used as a language about immigration that is not allowed for human writers to use phrases such as “criminal immigrants” because it covered discussions of the deputy presidency.

“There were also realistic mistakes that artificial intelligence made that night,” Skibell claims. For example, she says, Amnesty International, which caused the measures taken by the Biden administration as Kamala Harris did. This post was later replaced for alternatives without errors, according to the WIRED screen clips. “In Politico, you cannot completely download the articles written by the human reporters without going through a series of approvals, up to the leadership of the newsroom. This did not happen in favor of Ai Live,” as he claims Wittenberg. (Politico did not comment on the details of the union’s allegations.)