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Yahoo
30-01-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
US Authors Guild to certify books from ‘human intellect' rather than AI
The US body representing writers, the Authors Guild, has launched an online portal for members to confirm that their work 'emanated from the human intellect' and not from artificial intelligence. The initiative, called Human Authored, will allow authors to log on to the portal and register their book. They will then be able to use a specially designed logo on book covers and promotional materials to show that their work has been created without AI. Human Authored 'isn't about rejecting technology – it's about creating transparency, acknowledging the reader's desire for human connection, and celebrating the uniquely human elements of storytelling,' chief executive Mary Rasenberger said in a statement. 'Authors can still qualify if they use AI as a tool for spellchecking or research, but the certification connotes that the literary expression itself, with the unique human voice that every author brings to their writing, emanated from the human intellect.' Though currently only the guild's members will be able to access the portal and use the logo on their work, the guild plans to patent the logo and open the system to non-members. Author and head of communications at the Institute for the Future of Work, Kester Brewin, opened his book God-Like: A 500-Year History of Artificial Intelligence with an AI transparency statement, laying out where AI had been used in the writing of his book. 'Transparency about where and how AI has been used in written works in particular is absolutely fundamental to sustaining the trust relationship between writers and readers,' he said, calling the Authors Guild portal 'encouraging'. There is no such scheme currently available to authors inBritain, although the UK's Society of Authors (SoA), has put together guidelines to help its members protect their work from the impact of AI. The SoA also conducted a survey last year that found more than a third of translators had lost work due to generative AI. In light of the survey, the UK's largest trade union for writers, illustrators and translators, said that there is an 'urgent need' for government regulation of AI tools to ensure they are developed and used 'ethically and lawfully'. More recently, novelists Kate Mosse and Richard Osman criticised Labour's plan to make the UK 'one of the great AI superpowers', saying it could amount to theft and harm the UK creative industry.
The Guardian
30-01-2025
- Business
- The Guardian
US Authors Guild to certify books from ‘human intellect' rather than AI
The US body representing writers, the Authors Guild, has launched an online portal for members to confirm that their work 'emanated from the human intellect' and not from artificial intelligence. The initiative, called Human Authored, will allow authors to log on to the portal and register their book. They will then be able to use a specially designed logo on book covers and promotional materials to show that their work has been created without AI. Human Authored 'isn't about rejecting technology – it's about creating transparency, acknowledging the reader's desire for human connection, and celebrating the uniquely human elements of storytelling,' chief executive Mary Rasenberger said in a statement. 'Authors can still qualify if they use AI as a tool for spellchecking or research, but the certification connotes that the literary expression itself, with the unique human voice that every author brings to their writing, emanated from the human intellect.' Though currently only the guild's members will be able to access the portal and use the logo on their work, the guild plans to patent the logo and open the system to non-members. Author and head of communications at the Institute for the Future of Work, Kester Brewin, opened his book God-Like: A 500-Year History of Artificial Intelligence with an AI transparency statement, laying out where AI had been used in the writing of his book. 'Transparency about where and how AI has been used in written works in particular is absolutely fundamental to sustaining the trust relationship between writers and readers,' he said, calling the Authors Guild portal 'encouraging'. There is no such scheme currently available to authors inBritain, although the UK's Society of Authors (SoA), has put together guidelines to help its members protect their work from the impact of AI. The SoA also conducted a survey last year that found more than a third of translators had lost work due to generative AI. In light of the survey, the UK's largest trade union for writers, illustrators and translators, said that there is an 'urgent need' for government regulation of AI tools to ensure they are developed and used 'ethically and lawfully'. Sign up to Bookmarks Discover new books and learn more about your favourite authors with our expert reviews, interviews and news stories. Literary delights delivered direct to you after newsletter promotion More recently, novelists Kate Mosse and Richard Osman criticised Labour's plan to make the UK 'one of the great AI superpowers', saying it could amount to theft and harm the UK creative industry.
The Guardian
27-01-2025
- Business
- The Guardian
AI-based automation of jobs could increase inequality in UK, report says
The automation of millions of jobs will increase inequality in the UK unless the government intervenes to support small businesses and workers through the transition, according to a major report into the future of work. Ministers need to act in the interest of those who will be made unemployed or whose jobs dramatically change, said the report by the Institute for the Future of Work (IFOW) thinktank, in order to prevent skills shortages hitting employers and workers from suffering a decline in job satisfaction and wellbeing. Artificial intelligence software is expected to become a widespread tool in factories, offices and in the public sector, demanding new skills, the IFOW said. However, a survey of 5,000 UK employees found 'a pervasive sense of anxiety, fear and uncertainty' about the introduction of AI technology, and what it could do to their work. Christopher Pissarides, a Nobel prize winner in economics and the report's main author, said ministers needed to consider 'how AI can bring productivity and prosperity, without putting people under more intense stress and pressure? How can it help us identify and deliver new opportunities, without exacerbating growing divides cross the country?' He said the three-year report, which also surveyed 1,000 businesses, discovered that while some major employers had developed tools to mitigate the effects of automation and AI to support staff, many smaller employers struggled to comprehend how they would transform the workplace and what skills and training staff would be needed in order to adapt over the next decade. The report makes a series of recommendations, including establishing science centres – like London's Crick Institute – in regional cities to prevent the capital and the arc between Oxford and Cambridge from dominating innovations in fast-growing bio-technologies and securing a disproportionate number of high paying jobs. Pissarides, professor at the London School of Economics, said devolving decision making to the regions would also be an important element of the reforms needed, while unions should also be given new powers of 'digital access, collective rights to information and new e-learning roles, backed by the Treasury'. He said this would be in 'recognition of the key role of unions to deliver meaningful partnership working'. James Hayton, professor of innovation at Warwick Business School, and a member of the report team, said the impact on jobs, skills, and job quality should not be blamed on AI, but how firms used it. Sign up to Business Today Get set for the working day – we'll point you to all the business news and analysis you need every morning after newsletter promotion 'It is how firms and managers choose to implement it that is so crucial in bringing benefit to their workforce and overall productivity,' he said.
