AI disclosure

We use AI tools in specific parts of our workflow. We think readers deserve a clear, honest account of where, why, and what is still checked by a human.

Last reviewed: September 2026.

Where AI is used

Drafting. The body text of our articles is drafted by AI, working from an assembled bibliography and a written editorial brief. It is not typed out by a staff writer. We say so plainly because plenty of sites in this niche work the same way and imply otherwise.
Research assistance. AI tools surface candidate papers and summarise long ones so that a claim can be traced back to the study it came from.
Copy editing. Typos, grammar and clunky sentences.

What AI does not decide

Deciding what this site is. What we cover, the rules the drafting has to follow, and where the line sits on a contested finding are set by a person, who owns this domain and answers the email at the bottom of this page.
Inventing citations.Hallucinated references are a well-documented failure of language models. That is exactly why every research claim here carries a link to the primary source — a DOI or the publisher's own page — instead of just naming a study. A citation you cannot open is a citation you cannot check. Open them.

Why we're telling you this

Most sites that use AI tools don't say so. We think that's a mistake. Readers have a right to know how the content they're reading was produced, and editorial integrity requires that publications be honest about their workflow, not just about their conclusions.

If we ever discover that an AI-assisted step has introduced an error — a hallucinated source, a copy edit that altered a claim — we treat that error like any other and log it on our corrections page.

A correction to this page

An earlier version of this page said the first draft of every article was written by a human writer and that AI was not used to generate article bodies. That was not accurate: our drafts are AI-written, as described above. We corrected it in September 2026. A page about honesty is the last place that should carry a claim that does not hold, and we would rather log the error here than quietly rewrite it.

Questions or concerns

If you spot a sentence that reads as machine-generated, or a citation that doesn't check out, please email [email protected]. We treat that kind of email as a gift.