We believe that responsible use of AI can support better journalism, not replace it.
Here’s how we use AI in our work, and how you can expect us to use it responsibly and with your needs in mind.
1. Human-first, human-preferred
Our journalists remain responsible for everything we produce and publish, and we strive to verify anything created by us with generative AI that you see. We do not publish AI generated content that has not been reviewed by a human.
2. Why and how we use AI
We use AI to assist with tasks like summarizing articles, transcribing interviews, translating content, and recommending sources of additional information. We also sometimes use AI to create summaries of 3rd-party content — and we always include links — and encourage our readers to view the complete, originally published content.
We also us AI to help us spot patterns in large data sets. If AI plays a major role in a story or feature, we’ll tell you how and why it was used.
Each of our articles is tagged with one or more of the following classifications:
No use of AI
AI used for tagging
AI used for meta description or tagging
Original 1st-party work augmented with AI
Original 3rd-party work augmented with AI
Images created with AI
Original draft created with AI. Human fact check and edits
AI used to identify related content
If an article fails to display this information, send us an email at legal@ainews.cafe with the article URL, and we can provide you with the information
If we used AI to create a complete draft of an article prior to editing, that article will always be bylined Synthia Algoria.
3. Your data, your trust
We do not input private or sensitive information into AI tools. We follow our privacy policy strictly when using AI in any audience-facing product. We’ll always tell you if personalization or recommendations are AI-driven.
4. AI in product development
When we use AI to shape your experience by summarizing content like a newsletter, powering a chatbot or recommending stories, those tools are tested for fairness and accuracy to the best of our ability with the resources we have.
Human editors curate and review the data we use to train our captive AI tools — and we build them to be turned off or bypassed if needed. Our goal is to created the most relevant information for newsroom professionals.
5. AI in visual journalism
Images shape how we understand the world. We use AI in visuals to create logos, and other marketing elements of our content. In our 1st-party produced content we sometimes use royalty-free images generated with AI.
We may also use AI tools to visualize something not otherwise possible to photograph We never use AI to alter real people or events unless clearly labeled and editorially justified. All AI-generated visuals are reviewed by our editors.
Our policies are evolving, so you should check back here often for changes.
