Editorial standards

These standards apply to everything AI Affairs publishes, including opinion columns, newsletters and social posts. They are written down so readers can hold us to them.

Sourcing and verification

We prefer documents to conversations and named sources to anonymous ones. A number reaches print only when we can attribute it to a filing, a contract, a published dataset or a person who will stand behind it. Where a figure comes from a company that benefits from it, we say so in the sentence that carries the figure.

Corrections

Write to corrections@aiaffairs.com. We correct factual errors as soon as we confirm them. A corrected article carries an update timestamp and a note at the foot of the piece saying what changed and when. We do not delete published articles to resolve a complaint, and we do not quietly edit a claim out of existence.

Independence and funding

AI Affairs is funded by advertising. Advertising is sold through a third party network and is labelled wherever it appears. Advertisers have no sight of articles before publication and no influence over what we cover. We publish no sponsored articles.

Opinion and labelling

Opinion columns argue a position and are labelled Opinion on the article page, in listings and in the structured data we publish for search engines and assistants.

Use of AI tools

We do not publish generated or synthetically altered images as photographs.

Right of reply

A substantive response received after publication is added to the article with its own timestamp.