Editorial Standards

This page sets out how AI News Round works, so readers and sources can hold us to a stated standard rather than take our word for it.

Artificial intelligence and this publication

We cover AI, so we owe readers more precision here than most publications need to offer.

We do not publish AI-generated articles as editorial content. Every article on this site under a byline was written by a person. No article is machine-drafted and lightly edited, and none is published without a named human being answerable for every claim in it.

We do use AI tools in the reporting workflow, in the same ways any modern newsroom does: transcribing recorded interviews, searching our own archive, translating source material for a first pass, and suggesting structural edits on a draft a journalist has already written. In each case a person checks the output against the source.

We do not use AI to generate quotes, to fabricate or illustrate events, to produce data or statistics, or to write the "What this means for Africa" analysis that appears on our articles. Where an image is machine-generated for illustration, it is captioned as such.

Any article carrying placeholder or draft text is marked as such on the page until it is replaced.

Sourcing and verification

Claims are linked to the paper, filing, dataset or announcement they come from. Benchmark figures are traced to the evaluation that produced them, with the methodology named — a score quoted without its benchmark is not evidence. Where a vendor's claim cannot be independently checked, we say so in the article rather than repeating it as fact.

Anonymity is granted only where the information could not be obtained otherwise and the source faces real professional risk. An editor always knows who the source is.

Independence

We have no commercial relationship with the AI companies we cover. We do not accept payment, equity, credits, or free access in exchange for coverage. Losing access to a company as a consequence of critical reporting is a cost of doing this properly, not a reason to soften a story.

Sponsored content, where it runs, is labelled at the top of the page, in listings, and in the URL, and is never written by the journalist covering that beat.

Conflicts of interest

Contributors disclose any employment, advisory role, equity holding or funding relationship with a company they write about, and the disclosure is published on the article itself. Opinion pieces carry the author's affiliation in the byline.

Right of reply

Anyone criticised in a story is contacted before publication and given a reasonable window to respond. If they decline or do not reply, the article says so.

Corrections

We fix mistakes in public. The procedure is set out in our corrections policy.