What AI Adoption Exposes About the Media's Existential Crisis

AI adoption is pressing on the fault lines the media industry has historically failed to address. Among them are rampant tech-facilitated gender-based violence, the deepening of epistemic exclusion and injustice, and the persistent underpayment and devaluation of women’s labour. 

Article published in 'Pen Power: Media at the Crossroads,' a souvenir edition released at the National Meet of the Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) held in Thiruvananthapuram, India from 6 to 8 February 2026.

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