How ProPublica Uses AI Responsibly in Its Investigations

Sen. Ted Cruz released a database of 3,400 “woke” grants awarded by the National Science Foundation .

ProPublica reporter Ken Schwencke used an AI large language model to analyze the data.

The model was asked to mimic an investigative journalist reading through each of these grants to identify themes.

ProPublica and The Texas Tribune used open-source AI software to transcribe and classify raw material from Texas school shooting.

AI software can help reporters match up related files and reconstruct the day ’s events, they say.

We know full well that AI does not replicate the very time-intensive work we do, but there's potential to use AI as one of many reporting tools.