The following resolution was adopted by the members of the International Press Institute (IPI) on October 15, 2025 by unanimous vote of those present at the 74th annual General Assembly, and presented at the IPI World Congress on October 25, 2025 in Vienna, Austria.
We, as a community of media professionals, embrace the transformative role of artificial intelligence in offering new tools to enhance reporting, aid investigations, and connect newsrooms to audiences in innovative ways. When used responsibly, AI can make journalism more sustainable and improve access to reliable, independent news and information.
At the same time, we reaffirm the value of human-made journalism as a cornerstone of democratic societies and a guarantor of truth in the public interest. While acknowledging AI’s utility in the newsroom, it is not a substitute for the essential human role in newsgathering, fact-checking, and holding power to account.
We also believe in the importance of human-made journalism in countering the risks posed by AI to the health of the public sphere. Al-driven algorithms controlled by a handful of technology companies increasingly shape what people read, see, and share, often privileging divisive or sensational material over news of genuine public value.
The rise of AI-driven disinformation, deepfakes, and synthetic media further pollutes the information space, even as hostile actors deploy AI to harass, discredit, and silence independent voices. The deliberate blurring of truth and falsehood undermines public trust and corrodes democratic debate.
Meanwhile, we are concerned that large language models and other generative AI systems are being trained on vast amounts of journalistic content without consent, credit, or compensation — undermining copyright, devaluing original reporting, and threatening the economic sustainability of newsrooms.
Faced with these challenges, the IPI global network affirms that human-made journalism is indispensable to healthy information ecosystems. In a world where fact and fabrication are increasingly difficult to distinguish, human-centred reporting is the antidote to disinformation, ensuring the media can continue to play its watchdog role.
We therefore call on policymakers, technology companies, and all stakeholders to prioritize and safeguard the conditions in which human-made journalism can survive and thrive, to promote media pluralism, and to ensure that independent journalism can function unhindered in the age of AI.