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Disney is bracing for another round of layoffs, this time to its legal and global affairs department, as part of a corporate-wide workforce redesign in the adoption of artificial intelligence and other technologies. ...
While the memo doesn’t explicitly mention AI, Disney is increasing treating the technology as a restructuring tool in a way that will change how corporate functions are staffed and organized. It offers the clearest window into how the company’s AI push will change the entertainment giant beyond the movie screen: Disney isn’t just giving employees ChatGPT or Claude; It’s deploying AI to change the ways in which employees perform their jobs amid an operational shift that is leading to layoffs.
On Thursday, a week after the memo was shared, Disney posted a job opening for a director of AI enablement and legal engineering. The supervisor will redesign legal workflows using AI systems and implement other technology-related solutions for contract review, legal research and regulatory analysis. The position specifically calls for the evaluation of whether Disney should build AI systems internally or buy them from outside vendors, measure the return on investment for AI and help lawyers adopt new workflows. ...
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