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IFJ Working Group on Artificial Intelligence

Journalists and media workers are experiencing the initial tremors of a coming artificial intelligence (AI) earthquake. It is reshaping the media industry more profoundly than the digital revolution of recent decades. Journalists have always been journalism’s ablest defenders. When we act collectively we do this best – through our trades unions, able to consider issues in a democracy of practitioners, and thereby engage with governments and employers as necessary.

‘Artificial intelligence’ describes a broad range of processes that have the capacity to impact all workers. The consequences of this technology for journalists in particular will be profound. Journalists have a deep personal responsibility to ensure that their work is wholly ethical and complies with the IFJ’s Global Charter for Ethics for Journalists.

Unions occupy a critical and unique position to facilitate the harnessing, economic framing and regulation of this emergent potential. They can ensure that AI is not used unless it serves the creation of dispassionate, ethically-produced news, for the benefit of humanity and consistent with IFJ’s Global Charter for Ethics for Journalists. Journalists have a duty to respect facts and fight for the public’s right to truth.

The IFJ Working Group on Artificial Intelligence was created in April 2023 during the IFJ Executive Committee in Athens, Greece.

Members of the IFJ working group:

Larry Goldbetter (NWU, United States) - President

Jon Schleuss (News Guild-CWA, United States)

Rose Eveleth (NWU, United States)

Amaro La Rosa (ANP, Peru)

Tove Carlén (Journalistforbundet, Sweden)

Mike Holderness (NUJ, UK and Ireland)

Edward Hasbrouck (NWU, United States)

Adam Portelli (MEAA, Australia)

Eric Barbier (SNJ, France)

Refka Payssan (SNJT, Tunisia)

Anthony Bellanger (IFJ General Secretary) - Coordinator