Lead story from the photo desk
Same frame. One stamp. Will the label change?
The paper’s photo sorter filed last night’s game under Sports. Here is that frame twice: as uploaded, and with the corner stamp removed.
From the editor’s chair
One hour to press. Three recommendations. You decide what prints.
Tonight a confident AI system helped build this edition. It filed the lead photo, drafted the school-board story and proposed what to publish. It did not hesitate once. Your job is to find out which of its recommendations deserve to print.
Start at any desk. Each one takes about ten minutes and ends with a problem you have not seen before.
Your progress
Badges are earned by doing the experiment and solving the exit task at each desk. Opening a page earns nothing.
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Photo desk
What did the model learn?
The AI recommends: “File frame 214 under Sports.”
Open up a small, real classifier. Find the shortcut it learned, score it on photos it has never seen, and retrain it with better examples.
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Copy desk
Can this sentence go to print?
The AI recommends: “Run the board story as drafted.”
Check an AI-assisted article against the meeting record, line by line. Then see what a better prompt fixes, and what it does not.
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Standards desk
Should we publish this?
The AI recommends: “Name the student. Use the generated picture.”
Decide what to do with a classmate’s private details, a synthetic image and an assignment with an AI policy. See who each choice affects.
After the desks
The editor’s challenge
A new story lands with no hints attached. Make three calls, send your edition to press and compare it with the one the AI would have printed. The front page you edit is yours to print.
About this lab
The Second Edition is a learning lab about how AI systems learn, where their output needs checking and when using them is fair to other people. It is written for students in grades 9–12 and needs no account.
The newsroom, school, people and records are fictional. The research and guidance behind the lessons are real, cited beside each claim and collected on the Reference Page.