S&S staff petition against KKR-urged AI monitoring tool
Employees are gathering signatures for 250 to oppose Skan AI software, even as CEO Greg Greeley says no decision or rollout is underway.
This one's not about authors' contracts, but it's worth watching anyway — because it tells you how the company managing your books is thinking about AI right now. A private equity owner nudging a publisher toward keystroke-tracking software, and staff pushing back hard enough to write a formal letter, is a trust problem before it's a tech problem. Greeley says nothing's decided. Fine — but "early exploration" has a way of becoming policy quietly, and you want to know who's steering your publisher's priorities long before that happens.
Why it matters to you: How S&S resolves this fight over employee AI surveillance signals the culture and priorities of the company handling your contracts and your books.
This story ran in the Coral Wire edition of Thu, Oct 8 2026, when the Coral Index stood at 38/100 (Headwinds).
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