Our AI policy

We think readers deserve to know exactly what role, if any, automated tools play in the journalism they read. Our policy is deliberately narrow and easy to state.

Human-written throughout

PQR News journalism is written by people. The body prose of every article, the facts it asserts, the sources it relies on and the analysis it offers are the work of named human journalists and editors who are accountable for them. We do not publish machine-generated articles, and we do not pass off automated text as human reporting.

Where AI may assist

We allow AI tools a strictly limited, supporting role, confined to tasks that do not touch the substance of our journalism:

• Research pointers — helping a journalist find documents, references or leads, all of which are then read, verified and used at first hand by the journalist;
• Transcription — producing a first draft transcript of a recording, which a human then checks against the audio;
• Copy-editing — flagging typos, grammar and style issues in text a human has already written.

Where AI is never used

AI is not used to write body prose, to generate or assert facts, to decide or supply sourcing, or to produce analysis or conclusions. Those are the core of what we do, and they remain entirely human. A tool that suggests a source does not relieve a journalist of the duty to go to that source and confirm it; a tool that drafts a sentence is not permitted to put words of fact or judgement into our pages.

Accountability

Because a human writes and an editor checks every piece, responsibility for what we publish is always human and always traceable. If we ever change this policy, we will say so plainly and date the change.