Germany’s largest publishing house, Axel Springer, has decided to drastically cut the staff of the newspapers Die Welt and Bild, according to a letter from CEO Matthias Deppner today, which also warns against replacing journalists with artificial intelligence systems.

As Mr. Deppner points out in his letter to staff, the publishing house “will grow and at the same time cut its jobs”, while “significant reduction in production, patching and administration» two newspapers.

The management plan also includes incentives for voluntary resignation in order, as Matthias Deppner explains, to avoid layoffs.

Die Welt and Bild”they need to grow their sustainable online subscriptions“, emphasizes Mr. Deppner, pointing out that “journalistic standards will remain high and will become even higher.”

In his letter, Mr. Deppner also warns that “journalists risk becoming obsolete due to artificial intelligence, which could make independent journalism better than ever, or simply replace it, as Computers using artificial intelligence will soon be better at collecting information than human journalists.“.