The standards, independence commitments, and corrections policy that govern how Equity & AI works. We publish this charter because editorial independence is not a value we claim. It is a standard we are accountable to.
Equity & AI is an independent publication examining the public consequences of artificial intelligence: how automated systems are built, deployed, governed, and experienced by the communities they affect.
This charter defines how we work, what we publish, and what we will not do.
We publish analysis, commentary, and argument at the intersection of artificial intelligence, institutional power, digital rights, labor, access, and governance. We write for practitioners, policymakers, civic leaders, and anyone who wants to understand these systems without being sold something.
Our editorial thesis is direct: equity in AI is everyone's question. The technology is being built into the systems that shape access, opportunity, risk, and recourse across every sector of public life. None of us are outside it. Equity & AI is a truth agent on these questions, honest about the harms, attentive to the benefits, committed to education over alarm. Not doomers. Not boosters. The technology is the context. The people are the story.
We publish work that meets the following standard: it makes a reader think something they had not fully thought before, or see something they had not clearly seen before.
We publish across these formats:
Equity & AI is organized as a nonprofit. Our funding comes from foundations, grants, and readers, not from technology vendors, platform companies, or organizations with a direct commercial stake in the systems we cover.
We do not accept sponsored content. We do not accept advertising from technology vendors. We do not allow funders to direct, review, or approve editorial content before publication.
If a funder's work becomes editorially relevant, we will say so. If a conflict of interest exists or could reasonably be perceived, we will disclose it.
Editorial decisions are made by the editor. The board provides governance and oversight, not editorial direction.
We correct errors promptly and transparently. Corrections are noted in the original piece with the date of correction. We do not quietly edit published work. If an error is significant, we say what was wrong and what is right.
Equity & AI is written by people who have worked inside the systems under discussion. That includes technology systems, but it equally includes public health systems, government institutions, community organizations, and the lived experience of communities most shaped by decisions made elsewhere.
Our editorial authority does not come from technical expertise alone. It comes from proximity to consequence. We publish analysis and argument from practitioners, community leaders, researchers, and others who understand, from direct experience, how institutional systems work, who they serve, and who they leave behind.
The technology is rarely the story. The people are the story. The technology is the context.
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