Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter . On a chilly day in early April, outside the ProPublica offices in Lower Manhattan, dozens of union members staged a daylong strike—the first of its kind authorized at a major news organization to address, among other concerns, how AI would be used with its work. On the sidewalk, Agnel Philip, a data reporter at ProPublica and unit chair for the ProPublica Guild, told me that so far ProPublica has been conservative with AI. But “while the technology is new, and while places are sort of figuring out how they want to use it,” he said, “we want a seat at that table to make sure that its implementation is done well.”  Across the United States, journalists have been fighting for a say in how their newsrooms use AI, with varying degrees of success.…