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title: "AI policy | Ian Anderson Gray"
url: https://new2.iag.me/ai-policy/
description: "How I use AI in my work, my writing and with clients, and the lines I don't cross."
author: Ian Anderson Gray
---
# AI policy

**Draft for Ian to check (28 October 2026).** Written from his existing pages and notes. Still to confirm:

- Which AI tools and plans you use for client work, and whether any client work goes into tools that train on it
- Whether you'll ever make an AI version of your own voice or face (I've left this out)
- Whether to mention particular tools by name

I help people use AI, so it's only fair to be clear about how I use it myself. My view is simple: **AI should help people do what we do best as humans, which is to be creative. It should never replace us.**

For how AI was involved in each article and podcast episode, see [how I use AI](https://new2.iag.me/ai-use/). This page covers the bigger picture.

## In my writing

- I write my articles myself. I use AI for research, and for spelling and grammar checks.
- Podcast show notes are drafted with AI and checked by me; transcripts are made automatically.
- Every article and episode is labelled, so you always know.

## In pictures

- I don't use AI to make pictures of real people, including me.
- Illustrations for articles are drawn by human illustrators.
- I do use AI for practical jobs on images, such as removing a background or making different sizes, and I label any picture that was made with AI.

## With clients

- **Your information stays private.** I don't put confidential client information into AI tools that use it to train their models.
- **People stay in charge.** I recommend AI for drafts, research and repetitive tasks, with a person checking and deciding.
- **I'm honest about limits.** AI gets things wrong with great confidence. I'll tell you where it helps and where it doesn't.
- **I only recommend tools I've used myself.**

## AI reading this site

I'm happy for AI tools to read and learn from what I publish, because I want them to describe my work accurately. The site says so to AI tools in its robots.txt file, and offers a plain summary for them at [llms.txt](https://new2.iag.me/llms.txt). My work is still my copyright.

## Questions

If you'd like to know how AI was used in something I made, just [ask](https://new2.iag.me/contact/).