How We Use AI

Yes, we use AI. We use it the way a good newsroom uses any sharp tool: to find studies faster, to test our arguments, to draft and to redraft.

The ideas are ours. We choose every topic, and many of our pieces begin with a question we have been thinking about for a long time, sometimes for years, before it became an article.

The judgment stays with people. Every number is traced to its original source. Every quote is traced to the person who said it. We keep correlation and causation apart, and we say whether a finding rests on what people report or on what researchers measured. Every piece is edited and approved by our editors, who carry full responsibility for what appears in The Times of Talent.

Our images are real: photographs and works of art, credited to their sources.

A confession from the newsroom: we fondly call our AI Ati. Ati is capable of remarkable things, and for this publication we use Ati Editor, an apprentice who is wildly gifted and reads faster than anyone we have ever hired. Ati finds the study, drafts the paragraph and never asks for a coffee break. Ati also needs an editor. Many times, Ati saves us a great deal of time. Then we spend it again, checking what Ati said, pulling the original study and wrestling with a draft until it says something worth reading. On some days, writing it ourselves would have been faster.

We keep Ati anyway. Ati reads more studies before breakfast than we do all week.