AI Policy

Effective date: May 28, 2026
Last updated: May 28, 2026

I use AI tools to help run this site. I'd rather tell you exactly how than leave you to wonder, so here's the whole picture.

What I write myself

My essays and every Homefront issue are mine, start to finish. No model drafts them, and none ever will. When you read long-form work here, you are reading me.

Where AI helps

For the shorter material — the Footnotes, and the summaries on the Media and Speaking pages — I use AI as a drafting and sorting tool. It:

• reads and summarizes source material, including articles, documents, and files I give it;
• sorts each Footnote into a type;
• generates the signals that run in the ticker, along with headlines and the short summaries that appear on the site and in search results;
• tags pieces by topic and helps decide which ones relate to one another.

The take is mine

AI can summarize a source. It cannot tell you what I make of it. The read, the judgment, the angle — that is mine on every piece. I write the take, and I stand behind it.

I check the work

AI summaries get things wrong. Before anything publishes, I read it against the original source to confirm the summary is accurate and fair to what was actually said. Nothing goes live that I have not reviewed and approved.

What AI never touches

I point these tools only at editorial material — sources, drafts, and content. I never run subscriber or visitor information through them. How I handle your personal data is covered in the Privacy Policy.

I am accountable for everything published here under my name: the words, the takes, and the facts. The tools help me work faster. They do not get the last word. I do.