{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-09-30T07:10:04.104Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"judge","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"unknown","evidence":"","year":"","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":2,"coverage":{"cases":2,"countries":2,"languages":2,"unknownLocation":0,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":0,"lawsuits":1,"regulatory":0,"minors":0,"coreRelations":0,"contextualRelations":0,"mixedRelations":0,"unknownRelations":2,"relationPending":0,"relationUnknown":2},"countingNote":"Distinct public cases in this selection. People counts apply within individual cases only; cross-case person overlap has not been resolved. No population incidence estimate.","affectedCountNote":"Interpret person counts with affectedCountStatus and the reported effects. Unquantified zeros are placeholders, not a measured zero.","source":"AI incidents","publisher":"NOPE","url":"https://nope.net/incidents","license":"CC BY 4.0"},"incidents":[{"id":"2025-australia-commonwealth-bank-45-call-centre-roles-cut-after-ai-voice-bot-then-reversed","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has confirmed to the ABC that the organisation was cutting 45 jobs in its call centres after rolling out an artificial intelligence chatbot to deal with customer inquiries.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"marking the first time a bank had informed the union its job cuts were due to AI","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"The Bank told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation about the sackings in late July","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The bank confirmed to the ABC in late July 2025 that it was cutting 45 customer service jobs after rolling out an AI chatbot.","causal_attribution":"ABC attributes the AI link to the bank's briefing of the union. The bank's quoted statements refer to AI investment without stating that AI caused the cuts. The Register relays the ABC reporting."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"The Commonwealth Bank has backtracked on dozens of job cuts, describing its decision to axe 45 roles due to artificial intelligence as an \"error\".","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"CBA said it had apologised to the affected employees after finding the customer service roles were not redundant despite introducing an AI-powered \"voice-bot\".","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"CBA admitted it \"did not adequately consider all relevant business considerations\" when announcing the redundancies","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"Affected staff have now been provided the choice to continue in their current roles, pursue redeployment within the bank or proceed with leaving CBA.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"As reported on 21 August 2025, the bank described the decision as an error, apologised to the affected employees, and offered them the choice to continue in their roles, pursue redeployment or leave.","causal_attribution":"Bank statements relayed by ABC. The bank's own account of its conduct is left at reported."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"The Finance Sector Union has described the reversal as a \"major win\", after it raised a dispute at the Fair Work Commission.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"\"Call volumes were rising, with management scrambling to offer overtime and even pulling team leaders onto the phones,\" its statement read.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"the Finance Sector Union says the \"damage is already done\" to workers.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The Finance Sector Union raised a dispute at the Fair Work Commission and said members found call volumes rose after the bot was introduced, and said the damage was already done to workers.","causal_attribution":"Union statements relayed by ABC. The call-volume claim conflicts with the bank's July statement that AI made it easier and faster for customers to get help."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"she developed scripts for the bot, known as Bumblebee","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"There she was told she was being made redundant.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"she was utterly devastated to learn she was among 45 workers being made redundant in favour of the new technology in late July","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"was offered redeployment in the fraud and scams department.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"felt she could not keep up with the change of pace.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"felt defeated and accepted a voluntary redundancy.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"One affected employee told Yahoo Finance she helped train a bot known as Bumblebee, was told in July her role was redundant, was offered redeployment she judged unworkable, and accepted voluntary redundancy.","causal_attribution":"Single first-person account relayed by one outlet. Yahoo does not say the bot she helped train is the voice-bot named in ABC reporting."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Our investment in technology, including AI, is making it easier and faster for customers to get help, especially in our call centres.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Our priority is to explore opportunities for redeployment and to support affected employees with care, dignity and respect throughout the process.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The bank said in July that its AI investment made it easier and faster for customers to get help in call centres and that it would prioritise redeployment and support for affected employees.","causal_attribution":"Bank statements to the ABC. They are context and are not verified."}],"effects":[{"label":"Employees affected by 45 announced call centre job cuts after an AI voice-bot rollout, reversed by the bank about three weeks later as an error","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-29/commonwealth-bank-says-ai-behind-dozens-of-job-cuts/105586312","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"cba-fsu-statements-abc"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-21/cba-backtracks-on-ai-job-cuts-as-chatbot-lifts-call-volumes/105679492","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"cba-fsu-statements-abc"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/22/commonwealth_ban_chatbot_fail_rehiring/","kind":"trade_press","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"cba-fsu-statements-abc"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/commonwealth-bank-workers-brutal-realisation-after-training-ai-chatbot-that-made-her-redundant-042726816.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"yahoo-employee-interview"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["work"],"unknowns":["How many of the 45 employees chose to stay, be redeployed or leave is not reported.","The ABC pieces do not name the bot. Yahoo names Bumblebee for one employee's work and does not tie that bot to the voice-bot in ABC's August article.","Whether call volumes rose or fell after the bot launch is disputed between the bank and the union and no data was inspected.","The exact date the 45 employees were notified is not stated beyond July 2025 (the union was briefed the week before 29 July per ABC).","Bloomberg's report could not be read (HTTP 403). The Finextra page was retrieved only as a short extract and is not cited.","The outcome of the Fair Work Commission dispute and the hearing scheduled for the week after 21 August 2025 were not inspected."],"geography":{"basis":"ABC News reports an Australian bank cutting call centre jobs and a Fair Work Commission dispute, and the bank is an Australian employer.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["AU"],"affected_person_countries":["AU"]},"publication":{"basis":"ABC News (July and August 2025), The Register and Yahoo Finance Australia were read in full. Bank and union statements are attributed and left at reported. The interviewed employee is not named and the accounts of the bank and union conflict on call volumes.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-29"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"ABC reports the bank briefed the Finance Sector Union that the job cuts were due to AI and cut 45 roles after rolling out an AI chatbot, and that the bank later found the roles were not redundant despite introducing an AI voice-bot. The bank's own quoted July statements do not say AI caused the cuts. No inspected source says how individual employees were selected. The bot's effect on call volumes is disputed between the bank and the union.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["unknown"]},"name":"Australia: Commonwealth Bank announces 45 call centre job cuts after AI voice-bot rollout, then reverses them as an error","summary":"In late July 2025 the Commonwealth Bank of Australia told the ABC it was cutting 45 customer service jobs after introducing an AI chatbot, and ABC reports the bank briefed the Finance Sector Union that the cuts were due to AI. The union raised a dispute at the Fair Work Commission and said call volumes rose after the bot was introduced. As reported on 21 August 2025, the bank apologised to the affected employees, said it had not adequately considered all relevant business considerations, and offered them the choice to keep their roles, be redeployed or leave. One employee told Yahoo Finance she had helped train a bot known internally as Bumblebee, was told in July her role was redundant, judged the redeployment offer unworkable and accepted voluntary redundancy.","incidentDate":"2025-07-01","incidentEndDate":"2025-08-21","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2025-07-29","aiSystem":"Commonwealth Bank AI 'voice-bot' and customer messaging chatbot (one employee names a bot 'Bumblebee')","aiProduct":"Commonwealth Bank voice-bot","aiCompany":"Commonwealth Bank of Australia","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["professional_harm","psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"ABC reports the bank announced 45 call centre job cuts after rolling out an AI voice-bot, then called the decision an error and apologised, with the union saying the damage was already done. One employee told Yahoo Finance she was devastated, judged the redeployment offer unworkable and accepted voluntary redundancy.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":45,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"ABC's text reports 45 job cuts and its 21 August photo caption says the bank apologised to 45 employees who were made redundant before the reversal. Staff were then offered the choice to stay, be redeployed or leave, and how many lost employment is not reported. One employee separately reports accepting voluntary redundancy.","victimAgeRange":"adult","platformType":"chatbot","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-21/cba-backtracks-on-ai-job-cuts-as-chatbot-lifts-call-volumes/105679492","primarySourceLabel":"ABC News (21 Aug 2025)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-29T13:28:38.841837+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:16:56.298315+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["historical-2025"]},{"id":"2026-gisi-infopro-digital-creteil-ai-dismissals-suspended","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"Page 12: 'ORDONNONS la suspension du projet de réorganisation de la Société GISI et du projet de licenciement collectif (des 8 secrétaires de rédaction) en découlant, incluant la suspension des processus de reclassement, jusqu'à ce qu'il soit procédé à la réalisation des tests en situation réelle et à l'élaboration de numéros 0'; 'PRONONÇONS à l'encontre de la société GISI une astreinte provisoire de 8 000 euros par jour de retard pendant une durée de trois mois'; 'FAIT AU PALAIS DE JUSTICE DE CRETEIL, le 15 septembre 2026'. Page 1: 'ORDONNANCE DU : 15 Septembre 2026', 'N° RG 26/00991'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"\"la suspension du projet de réorganisation (...) et du projet de licenciement collectif (des 8 secrétaires de rédaction)\"; \"par jour de retard sur trois mois\"; \"En revanche, les dommages et intérêts réclamés ont été rejetés.\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"\"La justice a suspendu mardi en référé un projet de suppression de 8 postes au sein du groupe de presse Gisi (L'Usine nouvelle, LSA, L'Argus de l'assurance...), en lien avec le déploiement de l'intelligence artificielle\"; \"Il a par conséquent suspendu le plan jusqu'à la réalisation de tests complets. Contactée par l'AFP, la direction de Gisi a indiqué se réserver la possibilité de faire appel\".","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"On 15 September 2026 the Créteil judicial court, sitting in référé on the application of Gisi's CSE, ordered the suspension of Gisi's reorganisation project and of the resulting collective dismissal of the eight secrétaires de rédaction, including the redeployment processes, until real-situation tests and pilot issues confirm what share of sub-editor tasks the generative-AI tool can take over; it imposed a provisional penalty of 8,000 euros per day of delay for three months, refused the damages provision and awarded 2,000 euros in costs.","causal_attribution":"Established by the court order itself and confirmed by L'Informé and AFP, which each consulted the decision."},{"id":"c2","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"Page 11: 'représenter un risque grave et caractérisé sur la santé physique et mentale de plusieurs catégories de salariés de la société GISI'; 'la société GISI ne justifie pas de la mise en oeuvre des dispositifs de prévention du risque lié à l'introduction de la nouvelle technologie d'IA générative alors que dans le DUERP 2025 qu'elle produit (pièce 5) elle identifie 3 risques en lien avec l'introduction de l'IA (stress lié à l'insécurité de l'emploi lié à l'intelligence artificielle ; changements organisationnels liés à l'introduction de l'intelligence artificielle ; absence de repères liés à l'utilisation de l'IA et manque d'acculturation) mais ne les a pas côtés'. Page 10: 'sans aucune participation des salariés concernés, ni réalisation en situation réelle'; 'L'expert pronostique un risque d'intensification majeur du travail des rédacteurs'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"\"un risque grave et caractérisé sur la santé physique et mentale de plusieurs catégories de salariés\".","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"\"Le tribunal judiciaire de Créteil, saisi par le Comité social et économique (CSE) de Gisi\".","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"\"des risques de surcharge de travail (...) et une baisse de la qualité du travail fourni, de l'autonomie et du conflit de valeur, de la perte de sens et de l'altération du collectif\".","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The judge found that implementing the generative-AI project and the dismissal of all sub-editor posts on an approximate evaluation, without real-situation testing or participation of the staff concerned, presented a serious and characterised risk to the physical and mental health of several categories of Gisi staff, and that Gisi had not shown prevention measures although its 2025 risk register listed three AI-related risks including stress linked to AI-related job insecurity.","causal_attribution":"The court's own finding; it concerns a risk to health created by the way the AI-based reorganisation was to be deployed, not an individually diagnosed injury."},{"id":"c3","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"Page 2: 'La société GISI emploie 127 salariés dont 92 journalistes'; 'un outil dénommé DIGI'; 'Le projet de la société GISI prévoit la suppression de 8 postes de secrétaires de rédaction (SR) et la création de 2 postes de chefs d'édition reprenant une partie des missions des SR, à savoir celles ne pouvant être automatisées par l'outil DIGI'; 'Le 4 mai 2026 le CSE était convié à une réunion dite R0 de présentation du projet'; 'Le 12 mai 2026 la société GISI convoquait le CSE à une première réunion d'information/consultation sur deux projets'; 'le CSE de la société GISI obtenait le 15 juillet 2025 une ordonnance de référé'; 'Par un arrêt du 21 mai 2026 la cour d'appel de Paris confirmait l'ordonnance de référé du 15 juillet 2025'. Page 10: 'la société GISI a évalué à environ 70 % la part des tâches des SR réalisées par l'outil IA'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"\"Au sein de Gisi, 8 postes de SR sont menacés\"; \"la société estimant que 70% des tâches des SR peuvent être réalisées par l'IA\"; \"Des reclassements ont été proposés à tous les secrétaires de rédaction\".","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"\"avait déjà contrainte à ouvrir un processus d\".","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Gisi (127 staff, 92 journalists) planned to remove its eight sub-editor posts and create two chef d'édition posts for the tasks its in-house generative-AI tool DIGI could not automate, estimating that the tool would perform about 70% of sub-editor tasks; the project was presented to the CSE on 4 May 2026 and consultation opened on 12 May 2026, after an earlier July 2025 order (confirmed on appeal on 21 May 2026) had required consultation before AI tools were used.","causal_attribution":"Facts recited in the court order and reported by AFP from the company."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"\"Les quelque 250 journalistes de ces 26 titres au total avaient lancé une grève au printemps pour s'opposer au projet de leur propriétaire de supprimer 19 postes de secrétaires de rédaction\".","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"\"Nous allons poursuivre les tests et faire des numéros complets\"; \"la direction de Gisi a indiqué se réserver la possibilité de faire appel\".","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"\"nous suspendons le projet le temps de finaliser ces tests\".","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Some 250 journalists across Infopro Digital's 26 titles struck in spring 2026 against the owner's plan to cut 19 sub-editor posts because of the AI deployment; after the order Gisi's president said the tests would continue with full pilot issues and that the company reserved the right to appeal.","causal_attribution":"AFP reporting of the strike and of management's reaction; L'Informé carries management's written reply."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"\"with five of the eight affected journalists having already received pre-dismissal interview letters\"; \"newsroom positions accompanied by training were offered to all affected editorial secretaries, although some declined them\".","relation":"supports","source_id":"s6"}],"assertion":"Digital Watch, citing Stratégies, reports that five of the eight affected sub-editors had already received pre-dismissal interview letters and that Gisi had offered three chef d'édition roles and one technical editor-in-chief position, with newsroom posts offered to all affected sub-editors, some of whom declined.","causal_attribution":"Secondary summary attributing the detail to Stratégies (not readable from this host); reported only. Its count of three chef d'édition roles differs from the two posts in the order."}],"effects":[{"label":"eight sub-editors faced collective dismissal in favour of a generative-AI tool; a court found a serious risk to the physical and mental health of several categories of staff","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://linforme.files.sirius.press/files/1789566133007-SECURISE_ordonnance%20du%2015%20septembre%202026-2.pdf","kind":"court_order","access":"read","language":"fr","translation_note":"Court record: Tribunal judiciaire de Créteil, section des référés, ordonnance de référé of 15 September 2026, RG 26/00991, CSE de la société Gisi v. SAS Gisi, published by L'Informé (watermarked, 12 scanned pages without a text layer). Pages 1, 2, 10, 11 and 12 read visually in French on 2026-09-19; pages 3-9 not read. Quotations are transcribed from the page images.","independence_group":"tj-creteil-order"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.linforme.com/medias-culture/article/lsa-l-usine-nouvelle-la-justice-retoque-le-remplacement-des-journalistes-par-l-ia_8645.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"fr","translation_note":"Read in French on 2026-09-19 (L'Informé, 15 Sep 2026, updated 16 Sep with Infopro Digital's reaction). The served page truncates the opening paragraph; the court's findings, the penalty, the union reaction and management's reply are readable. L'Informé published the order.","independence_group":"linforme"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.cbnews.fr/medias/justice-suspend-projet-suppressions-postes-liees-ia-chez-usine-nouvelle-lsa","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"fr","translation_note":"Read in French on 2026-09-19 (CB News, 16 Sep 2026, AFP dispatch). AFP states it consulted the decision; carries Gisi president Isabelle André's comments.","independence_group":"afp"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.bfmtv.com/economie/emploi/vie-de-bureau/un-risque-grave-et-caracterise-sur-la-sante-physique-et-mentale-la-justice-suspend-un-projet-de-suppressions-de-postes-liees-a-l-ia-dans-les-medias-du-groupe-gisi_AD-202609160444.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"fr","translation_note":"Read in French on 2026-09-19 (BFM Business with AFP, 16 Sep 2026). Same AFP dispatch with a definition of the sub-editor role.","independence_group":"afp"},{"id":"s5","url":"https://www.liberation.fr/economie/medias/la-justice-suspend-un-projet-de-suppressions-de-postes-liees-a-lia-dans-le-groupe-de-presse-infopro-digital-20260916_H7LH5VX6A5EDBFWSDNNM3DPB3U/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"fr","translation_note":"Read in French on 2026-09-19 via the MSN content API copy (Libération, 16 Sep 2026, AFP). Same dispatch, adding the staff representative and SNJ-CGT reactions given to L'Informé.","independence_group":"afp"},{"id":"s6","url":"https://dig.watch/updates/french-court-ai-job-cuts-journalists","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-19 (Digital Watch Observatory, 17 Sep 2026). A secondary summary that attributes the pre-dismissal-letter and redeployment details to Stratégies, whose own article returns 403 to this host.","independence_group":"strategies-via-digital-watch"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["work","justice"],"unknowns":["Whether Gisi has appealed the order.","Whether the pre-dismissal procedure for the sub-editors has been formally withdrawn and whether all eight remain employed; individual health effects are not reported.","Pages 3-9 of the order (the parties' submissions) were not read.","The status of Groupe Moniteur's separate redundancy plan (PSE) covering the remaining sub-editor posts.","Digital Watch, citing Stratégies, reports three chef d'édition roles offered; the order and AFP record two chef d'édition posts. The difference (offers versus created posts, or a Stratégies error) is unresolved."],"geography":{"basis":"Gisi is registered in Créteil with its seat in Gentilly (Val-de-Marne) per the order; the staff work for its French titles; court: Tribunal judiciaire de Créteil.","court_countries":["FR"],"event_countries":["FR"],"affected_person_countries":["FR"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as a work-lane case of an institutional AI decision with concrete consequences for identified staff: eight sub-editors were subject to a collective dismissal plan justified by a generative-AI tool, and a court found the deployment presented a serious and characterised risk to the physical and mental health of several categories of staff and suspended it. The court order (primary record), L'Informé and AFP copies read; the affected people are unnamed.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-19"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The court order and AFP identify the generative-AI tool (DIGI) as the basis of the reorganisation and of the dismissal of the eight sub-editor posts, and the court's health-risk finding concerns deploying that tool without real-situation testing. The tool did not communicate with, decide about or depict the affected people; it was to take over their tasks, so none of the listed relations applies and the relation is recorded as unknown.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["unknown"]},"name":"Créteil, France: a court suspended Gisi's (Infopro Digital) plan to cut eight sub-editor posts in favour of a generative-AI tool, finding a serious and characterised risk to the physical and mental health of several categories of staff","summary":"Gisi, the Infopro Digital subsidiary publishing L'Usine nouvelle, LSA and L'Argus de l'assurance (127 staff, 92 journalists), presented to its works council (CSE) on 4 May 2026 a reorganisation built around 'DIGI', an in-house generative-AI editorial tool, and on 12 May 2026 opened consultation on the reorganisation and on the resulting collective dismissal of its eight secrétaires de rédaction (sub-editors), to be replaced by two chefs d'édition, on the company's estimate that the tool would take over about 70% of sub-editor tasks. Some 250 journalists across Infopro Digital's 26 titles had struck in spring 2026 against a group-wide plan to cut 19 sub-editor posts, and according to Digital Watch (citing Stratégies) five of the eight Gisi sub-editors had received pre-dismissal interview letters. The CSE, relying on an expert report, went to the Créteil judicial court in July. On 15 September 2026 the référé judge found that deploying the plan without real-situation testing presented 'un risque grave et caractérisé sur la santé physique et mentale de plusieurs catégories de salariés', ordered the suspension of the reorganisation and the collective dismissal (including the redeployment processes) until real-situation tests and full pilot issues are produced, with a provisional penalty of 8,000 euros per day for three months, and refused the damages provision. Gisi said it would continue the tests and reserved the right to appeal.","incidentDate":"2026-05-04","incidentKind":"ongoing_experience","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"product_change","reportedDate":"2026-09-15","aiSystem":"'DIGI', Gisi's in-house generative-AI editorial tool (transcription of interviews, drafting and correction help; planned spelling, grammar and typography correction, editorial-coherence and fact-reliability checks)","aiProduct":"DIGI editorial tool","aiCompany":"Gisi (Groupe Industrie Service Infos), a subsidiary of Infopro Digital (deployer of the in-house 'DIGI' generative-AI tool)","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["professional_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Eight sub-editors at Gisi faced collective dismissal because a generative-AI tool was to take over most of their tasks (five had received pre-dismissal interview letters, per Digital Watch citing Stratégies), and a court found that the plan, deployed without real-situation testing, presented a serious and characterised risk to the physical and mental health of several categories of staff; the court suspended the dismissals pending tests.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":8,"affectedCountStatus":"partial","affectedCountEvidence":"The order suspends 'le projet de licenciement collectif (des 8 secrétaires de rédaction)' and AFP reports eight sub-editor posts threatened at Gisi; Digital Watch, citing Stratégies, says five of the eight had received pre-dismissal interview letters. The court's health-risk finding extends to 'plusieurs catégories de salariés' without a number. Eight counted plus unquantified others: partial.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"FR","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"lawsuit_ongoing","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://linforme.files.sirius.press/files/1789566133007-SECURISE_ordonnance%20du%2015%20septembre%202026-2.pdf","primarySourceLabel":"Tribunal judiciaire de Créteil, ordonnance de référé of 15 September 2026 (RG 26/00991), CSE de la société Gisi v. SAS Gisi, as published by L'Informé","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-20T03:19:47.791082+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:37.711237+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["work","journalism","layoffs","generative-ai","newsroom-automation","france","creteil","labour-court","occupational-health","institutional-use"]}]}