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How We Use AI
AI assists our research and production. Humans decide what is true and what gets published.
Last updated 13 September 2026
What AI does
- Monitors permitted sources for emerging topics (the Trend Radar).
- Collects and organises sources into research dossiers.
- Extracts claims and links each to its source.
- Produces first drafts, outlines and metadata suggestions.
- Cross-checks draft claims against the dossier and flags anything unsupported.
- Suggests charts, internal links and social distribution copy.
What AI does not do
- Publish. Every piece passes editor review before it goes live.
- Invent facts, figures, quotes or experts. Drafts that contain unsupported claims are rejected by the fact-check stage.
- Rewrite published articles automatically. Refresh alerts go to editors, who decide.
- Scrape sources that prohibit it. We use official APIs, RSS feeds, licensed data and public datasets.
Verification
Important factual claims undergo verification by a human editor against primary sources before publication. Charts derived from editorial estimates are labelled Illustrative. Launch content that has not completed this process is labelled Demo.
Disclosure
Pieces produced with AI assistance carry a byline for the desk or the responsible editor. We do not present AI-generated text as the work of a named human who did not write it.
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