The federation of publishers’ guilds in Spain begins meetings on AI and its implications for publishing and the language.

The Federación de Gremios de Editores de España, , the Federation of Spanish Publishers’ Guilds (FGEE), has appointed Fernando Benzo as its new general secretary and José Manuel Anta—director of the Federation of Associations of Publishing Distributors (FANDE)—as its new manager.

And close on the heels of the news of those new leadership appointments, the federation has held an opening meeting in an examination of artificial intelligence and what it can mean for the book sector.

In an opening meeting on Wednesday (July 10), the organization was joined by representatives of the Royal Spanish Academy, the ministry of culture, education, labor and digital transformation and public service, as well as political representatives.

The president of the FGEE, Daniel Fernández, led the meeting in Sigüenza, saying, “We have a language with a presence that should allow us a place for ourselves in this new world, but I don’t know if we have the financial and technical capacity, as well as the will to defend our presence in this new world against the power of the great technological powers.”