AI Policy

Aljaweea is written, edited and verified by people. We use artificial intelligence to help them work faster and reach across two languages — never to replace the judgment, reporting or responsibility that journalism demands. Every article we publish carries a human byline, and every article passes human review before it reaches you. That holds in both English and Arabic.

Machines may help; people decide, check and sign their names.

This page explains, in plain terms, where AI helps our newsroom, where people stay firmly in control, and how to raise a concern. It sits alongside our Editorial Policy & Code of Ethics, which governs how we report; this page covers one tool among many.

Our stance

AI is useful, and it is fallible. We treat it as an assistant, not an author. A capable journalist supported by good tools serves readers better than either alone — but the tool answers to the journalist, not the other way round. We neither pretend to avoid AI entirely nor let it run unsupervised. The line is simple: machines may help; people decide, check and sign their names.

Where AI helps us

We use AI tools, under human direction, in five areas.

Research support. We use AI to scan documents, summarise long filings, surface background and point our reporters towards leads. An AI summary of an aviation safety report or an airline’s financial filing is a starting point for a journalist — never a finding in itself.

Translation support. Aljaweea publishes every story in English and Arabic. AI helps our writers and editors move between the two languages at speed. It produces a first pass; a human writer or editor who knows both languages then revises, corrects and approves the published text. A machine never has the last word on what either version says.

Tagging and metadata. We use AI to suggest categories, tags and structured data that help readers find and navigate our coverage. Editors review and adjust these suggestions.

Drafting support. Reporters may use AI to help structure notes, draft a headline option or tidy a rough passage — the way a newsroom has always used spell-checkers and style tools. The reporting, the facts and the final words remain the journalist’s own.

Illustration and creative work. We use AI image and design tools to create illustrations, cover art, diagrams and other visuals that accompany our journalism, where a suitable photograph or licensed image is not available or where an original illustration serves the story better. An editor reviews AI-generated or AI-assisted visuals for accuracy and suitability; we label such images in their captions (see Disclosure), and we never present an AI-generated image as a genuine photograph of a real event.

Where people stay in control

Some things we do not delegate to a machine.

Editorial judgement

What we cover, how we frame it and what it means are decisions made by our editors and writers.

Fact-checking and verification

We hold quantitative and research-derived claims to a three-source standard before publication. AI output is treated as unverified material to be checked, not as a source to be trusted.

Final sign-off

No story publishes automatically. A human editor reviews and approves every article — in both languages — before it goes live.

Authorship and accountability

Bylines name the people who reported and wrote each piece. Those people, and Aljaweea’s editors, are accountable for the result. We do not publish articles authored by AI, and we do not pass off machine-generated text as the work of our journalists.

Disclosure

When AI plays a meaningful, visible role in our journalism, we tell you plainly, alongside the work.

For images, we are specific. An image created wholly by AI is labelled AI-generated in its caption. A real photograph that has been materially altered by AI is labelled edited with AI. Ordinary photographs, human-made illustrations and routine adjustments such as cropping or colour correction are not labelled, and we never present an AI-generated image as a genuine photograph of a real event.

For other work — for example an AI-assisted data analysis — we note the AI’s role within or alongside the piece. We do not separately flag routine, behind-the-scenes help such as translation drafting, research summaries or tagging, any more than a newspaper labels its spell-checker; there, the human review and the human byline are your assurance. If you ever want to know how a particular story was produced, ask us.

Accuracy and verification

Accuracy is our responsibility, not the tool’s. Generative AI can be confidently wrong — it can invent facts, sources and quotations. We therefore treat everything an AI tool produces as a draft to be verified, and we apply the same three-source discipline and the same standards set out in our Editorial Policy & Code of Ethics whether or not a tool was involved. When we get something wrong, we correct it on the record through our Corrections & Complaints process — the cause makes no difference to the remedy.

Our bilingual, human-checked workflow

Publishing in two languages is central to what Aljaweea is, and it is where we are most deliberate about human oversight. Each story is written in one language by its author and rendered into the second. AI may help that rendering, but a person fluent in both languages reviews, edits and approves each version before publication. Both the English and the Arabic are human-checked. Neither is released as raw machine output.

Data and privacy

We are careful about what we put into AI tools. We do not feed confidential information, unpublished reporting or material that could identify a confidential source into third-party AI services. We choose tools and settings with our reporting and our readers’ privacy in mind. How we handle your personal data is set out in our Privacy Policy.

Raising a concern

If you believe AI has been misused in our work, or you have a question about how a story was produced, we want to hear from you. Contact us through our Corrections & Complaints page or by email at [email protected], or reach the newsroom through our Contact page. We review every message and respond.

This policy will evolve as the technology and the standards around it evolve. We will update this page when our practices change.

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