Technology
What readers should know when newsrooms use AI
Disclosure should explain what AI did, what humans checked, and what readers can inspect for themselves.
By Elias Grant
The useful debate about AI in journalism is not whether software touched a story. It is whether the newsroom can explain how that software was used, where it was prohibited, and who remains accountable.
AI can help reporters sort documents, compare timelines, and identify missing context. It can also introduce errors, flatten nuance, and produce false confidence when treated as an authority instead of a tool.
Vera’s standard is simple: readers should be able to see the role of AI in the reporting process, the human checks applied before publication, and the limits of what a story has established.