Gleanings from IJF26 #2

Yesterday morning, AI came up from several angles: on one side, the workers employed to develop it — Brazilian workers, underpaid, subcontracted on behalf of unknown clients, bound by extremely strict NDAs, doing repetitive, low-quality tasks; on the other, AI used to assist workers — for instance, an AI system for social workers designed to determine which children are most at risk of being removed from their families (you can imagine the horrors a racially biased system might produce in that context). And then: journalists and outlets investigating AI, alongside those who are not — out of opportunism or other reasons. And journalists who have never covered technology, now finding themselves having to report on AI’s impact in their own areas of expertise, given how pervasive the tool has become. Links to the panels below. https://www.festivaldelgiornalismo.com/programme/2026/beyond-the-hype-covering-ai-across-beats https://www.festivaldelgiornalismo.com/programme/2026/so-you-want-to-report-on-the-tech-industry-but-arent-a-tech-reporter