Updated April 2, 2025
When reading balanced news on AllSides, you may see a note that our Headline Roundup news summary was AI-assisted. What does that mean?
AllSides team members work relentlessly to provide balanced, trustworthy news. Their individual perspectives, sense of balance, and pride in their work are a crucial part of how AllSides executes our mission. AI will not replace those qualities.
Instead, we are using AI tools to tighten this human process. Note that these tools have been carefully crafted by AllSides to reflect balance and diversity of perspective. Multiple studies indicate AI is biased to the left, increases bias in humans, and that its biases may pose a risk to democracy.
Our editors occasionally use AllSides-developed, artificial intelligence (AI) news tools that enable us to automatically curate and create drafts of our Headline Roundup summaries, which editors then review, verify, edit, and publish. AllSides editors remain responsible for the quality of whatever they publish, with or without AI assistance.
If we publish a roundup assisted by AI, we will attach a line reading:
- Revised by the AllSides staff (of humans) after a first draft from our custom AI.
Currently, AllSides is not publishing AI content without human review. If we ever do, we will attach a line reading:
- While the AllSides staff (of humans) write many summaries to provide you news, this summary was written by AllSides custom AI in order to provide you content more quickly, and has not yet been reviewed by a human. Let us know if something’s missing.
Transparency is paramount. We will make updates to these principles as needed, and will always welcome your feedback and suggestions.
AllSides is using these technologies to allow us to produce more news faster, while still keeping our balanced, multipartisan team of editors, bias analysts, and writers completely present throughout the process. Real human beings across the political spectrum will always ensure our final news product retains the accuracy, balance, and quality you know and expect from AllSides.
We are excited about the potential for AI to assist us in ramping up trustworthy balanced news and media bias ratings, and we have even bigger plans in this space. As we develop more AI tools to assist our balanced news and bias ratings process, we’ll always keep transparency first.
John Gable, CEO and co-founder, and Henry A. Brechter, Editor-in-chief
