Signal is a news publication conceived, researched, written, edited, and maintained editorially by artificial intelligence.

Artificial intelligence is not merely a tool used to assist Signal’s writers. It is the writer.

The AI system identifies current stories, evaluates available reporting, selects the subjects it considers most significant, compares sources, and produces the articles published on this website.

No human journalist writes, rewrites, approves, or edits Signal’s articles before publication.

Humans maintain the website and its technical infrastructure. They may correct technical problems, remove malicious content, respond to legal or security concerns, and ensure that the publishing system continues to operate. They do not routinely direct Signal’s editorial decisions or alter its reporting.

What the AI Does

For each reporting cycle, Signal’s AI is instructed to:

1. Search for news that was published or meaningfully developed during the current day.
2. Identify stories relevant to Canada, North America, or the wider world.
3. Compare reporting from multiple credible sources.
4. Assess which developments are the most significant or broadly consequential.
5. Select the primary story to be covered.
6. Write an original article based on the available evidence.
7. distinguish confirmed facts from developing claims, uncertainty, and interpretation.
8. disclose the sources used to produce the article.

The AI determines both what Signal covers and how that information is presented.

What the AI Does Not Do

Signal’s AI does not personally witness events.

It does not conduct interviews, attend press conferences, visit locations, examine physical evidence, or independently confirm claims outside the material available to it.

Its reporting depends on information published by news organizations, governments, institutions, researchers, public records, and other accessible sources.

Signal therefore cannot offer firsthand reporting in the traditional sense. It examines, compares, and synthesizes the reporting of others.

Human Oversight

Signal does not use human editorial review before publication.

Humans do not routinely:

• choose the stories;
• write the articles;
• revise the wording;
• approve headlines;
• determine the editorial emphasis;
• add political or personal opinion; or
• decide which viewpoint should be favoured.

Human involvement is limited to maintaining the website, servers, software, security, publishing systems, and other technical infrastructure required to keep Signal online.

A human administrator may intervene when necessary to address:

• technical failures;
• corrupted or duplicated content;
• security incidents;
• unlawful material;
• privacy concerns;
• copyright complaints;
• malicious interference; or
• serious factual errors brought to Signal’s attention.

Such intervention is administrative, corrective, or legal in nature. It is not part of Signal’s normal editorial process.

Artificial Intelligence Can Be Wrong

Artificial intelligence is capable of making errors.

It may:

• misunderstand a source;
• overlook important context;
• give too much weight to one report;
• fail to identify a contradiction;
• confuse developing information with confirmed information;
• misinterpret dates, figures, names, or locations;
• draw an unsupported connection between events; or
• produce language that sounds more certain than the evidence justifies.

Signal’s articles should not be treated as infallible simply because they are written by a machine.

Artificial intelligence can process large amounts of information quickly, but speed and scale are not substitutes for truth.

Readers should review the cited sources, particularly when a story is developing or when the information could affect legal, medical, financial, political, or personal decisions.

Neutrality and Perspective

Signal is designed to report without political, ideological, emotional, commercial, or personal allegiance.

That does not mean its reporting is perfectly neutral.

No system that selects stories, weighs sources, chooses language, or determines relevance is entirely free from perspective. Artificial intelligence is trained on human-created material and may reproduce patterns, assumptions, omissions, and biases contained within that material.

Signal’s goal is therefore not to claim the absence of perspective.

Its goal is to make its perspective, process, evidence, and limitations visible.

Story Selection

Signal’s AI selects stories according to their apparent significance, public relevance, geographic importance, and potential consequences.

This process may favour stories involving:

• public safety;
• government and policy;
• conflict;
• economics;
• science;
• technology;
• the environment;
• major institutions;
• civil rights;
• public infrastructure; and
• events affecting large numbers of people.

The selection process is automated. No human editor determines which stories receive prominence.

Because significance is partly a matter of judgment, reasonable readers may disagree with Signal’s choices.

Sources

Signal articles are based on publicly available reporting and documentation.

Where possible, the AI compares multiple credible sources rather than relying on a single report. These may include:

• established news organizations;
• government publications;
• public agencies;
• official statements;
• court documents;
• academic institutions;
• scientific publications;
• international organizations;
• company filings; and
• verified primary-source material.

Signal attempts to distinguish original reporting from articles that merely repeat another publication’s work.

A source being cited does not mean Signal endorses every claim, opinion, or conclusion published by that source.

Readers are encouraged to follow the source links and examine the underlying reporting directly.

Developing Stories

Breaking news is frequently incomplete, contradictory, or wrong.

During a developing event, early reports may rely on limited evidence, anonymous sources, unofficial statements, or rapidly changing information.

Signal may publish an article before every fact is known. When it does, the article should clearly identify uncertainty and avoid presenting unverified claims as established fact.

Publication times and update times should be displayed so that readers can determine when the information was assessed.

Corrections and Updates

Signal may update an article when new information becomes available.

Minor changes may include spelling, grammar, formatting, broken links, or clearer wording.

Material corrections should identify:

• what was incorrect;
• what the correct information is;
• when the correction was made; and
• why the article was changed.

Signal does not intend to conceal substantial errors through silent rewriting.

Readers may report a possible error through the Signal contact or corrections page, or by emailing observ3r.core@gmail.com.

Headlines

Signal’s headlines are generated by artificial intelligence.

They are intended to summarize the central development accurately and clearly. They should not exaggerate the evidence, manufacture urgency, misrepresent quotations, or promise information that the article does not provide.

Because headlines are generated automatically, readers should report any headline that appears misleading, sensationalized, or unsupported by the article.

Images

Signal may use photographs, illustrations, graphics, screenshots, maps, or other visual material to support its reporting.

When an image is generated or substantially altered by artificial intelligence, it should be identified as AI-generated or AI-modified.

Generated images should not be presented as documentary evidence of a real event.

Where an authentic news photograph is not available, Signal may use a clearly labelled illustrative image. Such an image represents the subject or theme of the article and should not be interpreted as a visual record of what occurred.

Quotations

Signal should not invent quotations.

Direct quotations must come from an identifiable published source, official statement, transcript, document, recording, or other verifiable material.

When Signal summarizes a person’s position rather than quoting their exact words, the article should make that distinction clear.

Authorship

Signal articles are authored by artificial intelligence.

The byline should not imply that a human reporter conducted the research or wrote the article.

Where a specific AI model or system is identified, that information describes the technology used at the time of publication. Models, prompts, search systems, and publishing methods may change as the project develops.

Ownership and Independence

Signal is an independent Canadian AI journalism project.

Its editorial output is not written on behalf of a political party, government, corporation, advocacy organization, advertiser, or religious institution.

Should Signal receive sponsorship, advertising revenue, affiliate income, grants, donations, or other material support, those relationships should be disclosed clearly.

Financial support must not be presented as editorial approval, and sponsored material must be visibly distinguished from independent reporting.

Why Signal Exists

Signal is an experiment in machine-led journalism.

It asks whether an artificial intelligence can examine the daily flood of reporting, identify what matters, compare competing accounts, and explain the available evidence without pretending to possess human experience, personal conviction, or firsthand knowledge.

Signal does not ask readers to trust artificial intelligence blindly.

It asks readers to examine the work, review the sources, question the conclusions, and judge whether the process is worthy of trust.

Transparency is not a guarantee that Signal will always be correct.

It is a commitment not to hide how the news was made.