What happens when AI use starts creeping into newsrooms? While journalists have already started using AI for peripheral and mundane tasks like transcription and drafting emails, it's slowly but increasingly being used in core journalism work. In this episode of Rank and File Radio, we sit down with Vincent Pasquier, an associate professor at HEC Montréal, who is researching AI's impact on work, labor, and journalism and who recently conducted a survey with roughly 400 journalists about AI use. Pasquier explains that AI's effects on job quality, whether positive or negative, depend not on the technology itself but on how employers choose to deploy it, a point that underscores the importance of union involvement. Vincent also notes that while labor organizations are not anti-technology, AI consistently gets bumped from bargaining agendas in favor of wages and benefits. Vincent explains why job-protection clauses and the preservation of worker autonomy, and technology may be accelerating the early stages of worker mobilization.

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Photo (Creative Commons): Crowd gathered outside the Union Bank of Canada building on Main Street during the Winnipeg General Strike

Creator(s) / Créateur(s) : Unknown / Inconnu

Date(s) : 21 June 1919 / 21 juin 1919

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