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I am experimenting with the use of Artificial Intelligence in my reporting on this website. My goal is to make clear when and how I use AI so that you can better judge the credibility of my work.<\/p>\n

When writing freelance articles for outside publications, I will limit my use of AI, reverting to the kind of shoe-leather reporting I learned before all these machines and screens came into our lives.<\/p>\n

To learn how journalists should best use AI, I rely on such organizations as the Global Investigative Journalism Network and the Pulitzer Center. The two organizations created an AI Accountability Reporting Guide<\/a> which contains valuable resources and best practices.<\/p>\n

I taught college-level journalism for 18 years in Florida. During my last few years in the classroom, I noticed more and more students using AI. Old-fashioned journalist that I am, I was dead set against it. I figured, how are students going to learn to write and think critically if they let machines do all their work?<\/p>\n

My view on that hasn’t changed. I don’t think journalists should let machines write their stories and they certainly shouldn’t pass off AI text as their own.<\/p>\n

But I have found that AI can be useful in:<\/p>\n