A nation behind bars: Why has Israel imprisoned 10,000 Palestinians?

For every Palestinian Israel freed in the ceasefire deal, it apprehended 15 more. The number of political prisoners in its jails has doubled since the war began www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/...

Our editor-in-chief has written about how AI "enshitification" and "AI slop" has "ruined" search engines.

We're asking management to work with us to ensure AI enshitification never ruins @motherjones.com and @revealnews.org

In January, Apple was forced to suspend its AI news summary notification feature, which had concocted false stories and wrongly attributed them to real news outlets www.bbc.com/news/article...

A BBC study of AI tools found that "51% of all AI answers to questions about the news were judged to have significant issues of some form" and "13% of the quotes sourced from BBC articles were either altered or didn’t actually exist in that article" www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/...

Why do workers need a seat at the AI table?

The threat to our livelihoods and working conditions is obvious. It's clear that reckless use of AI could have catastrophic consequences for the reputations of our publications and the journalists who work here.

🔹Demand 2: CIR must work with, and get consent from, the Union before implementing AI tools.

As our CEO has written (disapprovingly), "The big money loves the idea that artificial intelligence will replace journalists." This practice is increasingly widespread, and we don't want it to happen here. We doubt our readers or donors do, either. www.npr.org/2024/05/16/1...

In short, don't replace us with bots. The leadership of a magazine named for a legendary labor leader should be happy to make that commitment. And it needs to be universal—covering print and radio; art, production and sound; business ops; and everything else.

Obviously, we aren't saying AI should never be used at all. But we are asking for two reasonable protections.

🔹Demand 1: Union work—and Union workers—must not be displaced by AI.