AI and Bylines Policy
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Readers should know how the articles they read are made. UAE Current uses artificial intelligence in its newsroom, and this page explains exactly where, where we do not, and who is responsible for the result.
How our articles are produced
- Research. For each story, AI research tools help us find and read the primary sources: the decision, the law, the official service page, the data release. Search results and other publishers' articles are never treated as sources.
- Drafting. An AI model drafts the article under our editorial standards, using only facts from those sources, and records the evidence trail: what was read, when, and anything that did not match.
- Automated checks. The draft must pass a quality gate that blocks missing sources, broken links, banned phrasing, missing dates and other basic failures.
- Human review. The editor-in-chief, Umer Kureshi, reviews the article against the sources before it is published, and is accountable for it once it is live.
Desk bylines
Our articles are published under the byline of the desk that produced them. Each desk covers one area, follows a published method and has its own profile on our masthead:
| Desk byline | Covers |
|---|---|
| Mariam Al Nuaimi | Policy and public affairs: government, visas and residency, jobs and labour, education |
| Omar Al Haddad | Business, economy and markets: banking, tax, fuel and gold prices, trade |
| Aisha Rahman | Technology, AI and cybersecurity: scams, telecoms, digital services, startups |
| Rami Khoury | Property, construction and infrastructure: real estate, tenancy, transport |
| Sara Al Mansoori | Law, courts and consumer rights |
| Daniel Fernandes | Travel, aviation, culture and lifestyle |
These names are desk bylines, not individual staff journalists, and their portraits are illustrations. We say this on every desk profile and on every article they sign. We do not claim degrees, awards, employment history or first-hand experiences for them. The person accountable for every desk's work is the named editor shown on each article.
What AI is never used for
- Inventing quotes, interviews, sources, statistics or events.
- Claiming that we tested, visited or spoke to someone when we did not.
- Creating images that could pass for a photograph of a real event, a real person, an official document or an official emblem.
- Publishing anything without human review.
Images
Some feature images are generated with AI as illustrative scenes. They are made to contain no text, flags, emblems, documents or identifiable people, so that they cannot be mistaken for news photography. Real photographs are credited to their source.
Responsibility
Using AI does not change who is responsible. UAE Current and its editor-in-chief are accountable for every article as if it had been written entirely by hand, and mistakes are corrected under our corrections policy. Questions about this policy are welcome through our contact page.