Statement on Roosevelt’s Use of Artificial Intelligence

Our work starts with a simple belief. The rules that shape our economy are choices, and people should have power over the forces that shape their lives. Artificial intelligence is becoming one of those forces.

To help shape the rules for this technology, we have to understand it: how it’s being used, where it helps, and where it does harm. That’s part of why we engage with these tools directly in our own work, and why we’re being clear about how we do so.

As an organization committed to workers, economic inclusion, and democratic accountability, we don’t take this lightly. We see the real tensions AI raises for creative labor, job quality, privacy, corporate power, energy use, and community costs. We developed our principles for AI use with our staff, including our union, so the people doing the work helped shape the rules. Those principles require compliance with applicable law, including privacy and intellectual property law, and apply to all work, not just what’s public-facing.

We use AI to augment, not replace, human work. Roosevelt staff shape the ideas, make the decisions, review the output, and remain responsible for what we publish. 

Our practices will change as the technology does. But our principles will not. Any use of AI in Roosevelt’s public work must be transparent, mission-aligned, and accountable to human judgment.