Aisha Down
aishadown.bsky.social
Aisha Down
@aishadown.bsky.social
Reporter covering AI for The Guardian. Senior Tarbell Fellow @ Tarbell Center for AI Journalism. SABEW award for international reporting, 2024.
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This, unfortunately, has been very obviously coming. I suspect this is only the leading edge of a whole bounty hunter complex.

aramzs.xyz/noteworthy/t...
December 23, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:42 AM
“If we handed in stuff that was AI-generated, we would be kicked out of the uni, but we’re being taught by an AI" -- on how maybe AI shouldn't transform higher education.

www.theguardian.com/education/20...
‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI
Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Ross Douthat here makes a fantastic argument for ... just subscribing to The Guardian instead.
November 8, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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If I was working at the Times (would never happen lol) I would be talking to my women colleagues and perhaps outside counsel about whether this constitutes a Title VII violation.
Current printed title (and better summary):
November 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM