AI Policy

Introduction

Canadian Affairs News Inc. (“Canadian Affairs”) exists to publish high-quality, original, reported journalism on Canada’s toughest social challenges. We leverage tools that help us perform our work efficiently. Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of those tools. 

At Canadian Affairs, we recognize AI’s potential to enhance our work while also acknowledging its risks. This policy sets out the permitted and non-permitted uses of AI within our newsroom.

Journalistic oversight

Canadian Affairs will not use AI to replace our journalists, who conduct research and interviews and use the information they gather to produce original, factual and balanced news stories.

Canadian Affairs’ journalists and editors must always exercise human judgment when using AI. They maintain full editorial responsibility for their content. This includes fact-checking all content and ensuring their final drafts do not reflect bias, errors, misquotes or misstatements.

Permitted uses

Canadian Affairs’ journalists and editors can use AI tools for tasks such as background research, identifying sources, proposing interview questions, transcribing recordings, analyzing data and other information, proposing ways to condense information, ensuring compliance with Canadian Press style guidelines, and suggesting headlines, subheadings or SEO keywords. 

Canadian Affairs can also use AI tools to produce non-journalistic content, including marketing communications, strategic documents or automated workflows. 

Canadian Affairs uses AI to produce audio recordings of its articles. 

Prohibited uses

Canadian Affairs’ journalists and editors cannot feed sensitive information into AI. Sensitive information includes, but is not limited to, sources’ non-public information or data, intellectual property or embargoed information. When we have decided to refrain from publishing a source’s name, we do not feed their name into AI.  

Disclosure

This policy serves as our disclosure to readers on how our newsroom uses AI. If we use AI tools to generate data analysis that is published within an article, we will disclose this with the data. If we use an AI-generated visual or enhanced multimedia asset, we will label it as such.

AI tools

Canadian Affairs uses the following AI tools in our newsroom: ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Otter.ai, Descript, ElevenLabs. 

Policy last updated: February 18, 2026