NN/G’s Generative-AI-Content Policy

Last updated: Sept. 14, 2026

This policy applies to NN/G content, including articles, video scripts, social posts, training materials, podcasts, and other published content.

NN/G permits the use of generative AI throughout the creation and editorial process. AI may contribute both wording and ideas.

However, AI does not replace human responsibility for NN/G content. At each stage of the process, people are responsible for understanding, evaluating, and standing behind the work they produce or approve.

NN/G does not prescribe how authors or editors must develop their ideas. They may think through an argument by writing, sketching, discussing it with colleagues, dictating their thoughts, or interacting with AI. AI may participate in reasoning; humans must evaluate and take responsibility for the result.

Acceptable Uses of AI

Authors and editors may use AI to:

  • Brainstorm ideas, examples, titles, or alternative framings
  • Draft, rewrite, or clarify passages
  • Improve concision, grammar, and readability
  • Create summaries or other content that must meet specific format requirements
  • Adapt existing NN/G content to another format or channel
  • Reformat or structure content
  • Identify potential logical gaps, counterarguments, or weaknesses
  • Surface claims that may require verification or potentially contradictory evidence
  • Serve as a critique or discussion partner

AI-generated wording and ideas may appear in published NN/G content, as long as they reflect the authors’ expert judgment and point of view.

Author Responsibilities

Authors are responsible for every draft they submit for editorial review, regardless of how extensively they used AI to create it.

Authors must:

  • Own the core ideas, argument, intended contribution, and overall message, regardless of whether AI helped develop them
  • Understand and be able to explain and defend the claims and recommendations in the draft
  • Evaluate AI-generated wording and ideas
  • Verify factual claims, citations, quotations
  • Ensure that the argument reflects their considered judgment, even when AI contributed to developing it
  • Ensure that the submitted draft follows NN/G content standards and style guides
  • Review and revise AI-generated material sufficiently that the submitted draft meets the same standard of readiness as a draft produced without AI

Authors should not submit raw or lightly reviewed AI output for an editor to evaluate or correct. AI use should not transfer the author's work of developing and checking a draft to the editor.

Editor Responsibilities

Editors may use AI during editorial review, but AI does not replace their own judgment.

Editors must:

  • Independently review the content rather than relying on AI's assessment of it
  • Decide whether the topic and contribution are worth publishing
  • Evaluate whether the argument is logically sound, accurate, useful, and adequately supported
  • Ensure that important factual claims have been appropriately verified
  • Evaluate AI-generated suggestions rather than accepting them automatically
  • Ensure that the content meets NN/G’s editorial standards, including style and tone
  • Ensure that issues identified during review are adequately resolved
  • Make the final editorial decision to publish

Responsibility for Published Content

Before publication, both the author and editor must review the final content and be prepared to stand behind it.

The author remains responsible for the substance of the work, including the claims, arguments, and recommendations they have chosen to make.

The editor remains responsible for the editorial judgment applied to the work and for the decision that it meets NN/G’s standards for publication.

When NN/G publishes content, both the author and editor have reviewed and approved the final artifact, and NN/G is putting its name behind it.

Verification and Sources

AI can assist with fact checking by identifying claims to investigate, surfacing possible contradictory evidence, or flagging potential misstatements or overgeneralizations.

However:

  • AI is not an authoritative source.
  • An AI-generated citation, statement, or assessment is not considered verified simply because an AI system produced it or deemed it correct.
  • Claims that require verification should be checked against appropriate original or reliable sources.

Disclosure

NN/G does not treat routine AI assistance in writing, editing, or reasoning as equivalent to autonomous AI authorship.

Where laws, regulations, platform rules, or publication standards require disclosure of AI use, NN/G will comply with those requirements.

Regardless of whether disclosure is required, responsibility for NN/G content remains with the people who author, review, approve, and publish it.

This policy was generated with AI help using this article as input. Humans reviewed, revised, and approved.