Human accountability
AI Use and Fact-Checking Policy
AI can accelerate bounded production tasks. It cannot become the source, invent experience, or replace the person accountable for publication.
Last updated August 6, 2026
Permitted assistance
AI may help organize research leads, suggest questions, transform structured notes, check consistency, generate visual concepts, or identify passages that need review.
What AI output cannot establish
A fluent sentence is not evidence. Generated claims, quotations, statistics, product behavior, and citations must be mapped to a source or verified observation before publication. Unsupported material is qualified or removed.
Fact-checking workflow
- Classify current facts, numbers, observations, interpretations, recommendations, and opinions.
- Open the closest available source and confirm that it supports the exact sentence.
- Check date, scope, method, conflicts, and competing explanations.
- Review names, dates, links, superlatives, and causal claims separately.
- Run a final human review for promise drift, generic language, and missing limitations.
Originality and voice
AI output is not used to imitate a living author, manufacture first-person experience, or hide copied structure. Human editing must add judgment: what matters first, what fails, where the advice stops applying, and what evidence is missing.
Images
AI-assisted illustrations are treated as editorial artwork, not documentary evidence. Captions and alternative text describe the scene without presenting it as a real event.
Responsibility
The named author and editor remain responsible for the visible page, regardless of which tools supported production.