Since The Atlantic announced on May 29 that it had entered into a deal with OpenAI, The Atlantic’s unionized staff has demanded details about the deal and its impact on their work. Management has flatly rejected union members’ efforts to get clarity and details on the deal, even as multiple news stories have reported that ChatGPT is hallucinating Atlantic links, directing readers to incorrect, aggregated links to the magazine’s original reporting. As part of The New York Times’ suit against OpenAI over copyright infringement, OpenAI has demanded that Times journalists turn over notes and other materials used in their reporting, which is especially troubling.

Atlantic staffers must have a voice in how AI affects their work, and that voice must be outlined in their collective-bargaining agreement. AI cannot replace the humans who power The Atlantic, and no publication that aspires to the standards The Atlantic has embodied for more than a century and a half can allow that to happen.