Ethical AI Use

Published August 2026

How we use artificial intelligence and why it always serves our values, not the other way around.

At the Emet Conference, every choice we make, from the words on our website to the structure of our program, is guided by a single question: Does this serve the people in our community? Artificial intelligence has become one of the tools available to us as we do this work. We use it carefully, deliberately, and always in service of the human connection, honest communication, and communal integrity that define who we are. AI assists our team. It does not speak for our community, make decisions on our behalf, or replace the human judgment that holds this conference together.

OUR VALUES COME FIRST

The name Emet is the Hebrew word for truth. It is not incidental! It is the organizing principle of everything we do. Every session we curate, every invitation we extend, every sentence we publish is held against that standard. Our use of AI is no different.

The Emet Conference is built on four core values: truth, community, accessibility, and intentionality. These are not aspirational decorations. They are active criteria. When we evaluate whether and how to use an AI tool, we ask whether it strengthens these values or compromises them. If the answer is the latter, we do not use it.

Technology must serve people. That principle is not negotiable. The moment any tool begins to shape our community's voice, flatten the nuance of our speakers, or introduce efficiency at the cost of care it has exceeded its role. We take that boundary seriously, and we return to it often.

Our Standard

AI is used at the Emet Conference only where it makes our human work more truthful, more accessible, or more thoughtful, never where it replaces the judgment, relationships, or accountability that belong to our team and our community.

HOW WE USE AI ACROSS OUR MATERIALS

Our team is entirely comprised of volunteers. AI tools assist this small, dedicated team across a range of practical tasks. In each case, the goal is the same: to produce work that is clearer, more inclusive, and more carefully considered than we could achieve alone under the real constraints of time and capacity.

Here is where AI plays a supporting role in our work:

  • Drafting and refining communications, website copy, and conference materials: giving our writers a starting point they can shape and improve

  • Supporting session descriptions, speaker bios, and program guides, which are then reviewed and rewritten in collaboration with the speakers themselves

  • Developing accessible, plain-language versions of complex content for diverse audiences

  • Generating design prompts and creative direction that our visual team uses as raw material

  • Assisting with research synthesis and content organization during the planning process

  • Creating social media content, including post copy, captions, and content concepts across platforms.

In every one of these cases, AI-generated content is treated as a first draft a starting point that our team interrogates, revises, and owns. Nothing produced with AI assistance leaves our hands without being meaningfully shaped by human thought. A draft that comes from an AI prompt is not a document. It is the beginning of a conversation with our editors.

Any social media content that depicts human likeness is automatically flagged through SynthID, Google’s tool for identifying AI-generated content. All photographs appearing on our website are real attendees from Magshimey Herut Events

OUR HUMAN REVIEW PROCESS

The Emet Conference maintains a rigorous editorial process for all AI-assisted content, and that process is designed to protect the integrity of everything we publish under our name.

Every piece of AI-assisted content passes through review by at least one Emet team member before it is used in any form. Reviewers evaluate the work on four dimensions: factual accuracy, tone alignment with the Emet voice, cultural sensitivity, and communal resonance: will the content ring true to the people it is meant to serve.

Content that touches on speaker representation, community narratives, personal stories, or any topic with the potential to cause harm receives additional review, and in many cases, direct input from the individuals or communities involved. We do not narrate anyone's story without their participation.

Our Commitment

Final approval for all content rests with a human editor. AI does not publish, send, schedule, or act autonomously on behalf of the Emet Conference. Every action taken in our name is taken by a person who is accountable for it.

OUR COMMITMENT TO TRANSPARENCY

Transparency is an expression of respect. We believe our community deserves to know how the materials they engage with are produced — and we are committed to being open about that, even when it is uncomfortable or incomplete.

Where AI assistance plays a meaningful role in producing content, we will say so. We are developing consistent labeling practices to make this clear across our website, program materials, and communications. We do not intend to obscure the role that AI tools play. Instead, we intend to contextualize it honestly.

We also invite our community into this conversation. If you have concerns about any aspect of our AI use (ethical, creative, or communal) we want to hear them. Simply click the “contact” option at the top of this webpage. This policy exists because of our community, and it will only improve with your input.

This document is a living policy. As AI capabilities evolve, as our team's experience deepens, and as our community's needs shift, we will update it. The date of the most recent revision will always be clearly visible, and significant changes will be communicated directly to our registered attendees and subscribers.

AI IN SERVICE OF ACCESSIBILITY

Accessibility is not a feature we add at the end. It is a justice commitment woven into how we build the conference from the beginning. AI has become a meaningful tool in that work. It helps our team do this work more thoroughly than our capacity might otherwise allow.

We use AI assistance to generate plain-language summaries of complex session content, making our program legible to attendees across different educational backgrounds and areas of expertise. We use it to draft caption text and descriptive image alt text, which our team then reviews and refines. We use it to support multilingual communication — drafting translated materials that go through human review before publication.

We also use AI to help us evaluate the readability and formatting of our content for screen readers and accessible design standards. These outputs always pass through human review and, where possible, through review by community members with relevant lived experience.

A FINAL WORD

To everyone who has trusted the Emet Conference with their time, their participation, and their presence: thank you. You are why this work matters, and you are why we hold ourselves to account so carefully.

We use AI in pursuit of emet, truth, in every word we write, experience we design, and interaction we facilitate. That pursuit is never finished, and we do not pretend otherwise. We will make mistakes. We will learn from them. And we will keep asking the community to hold us to the standard our name requires.

If something in this policy raises a question for you, please ask. If something in our practice falls short of what is written here, please tell us. Accountability is not a burden, it is how trust gets built, and trust is what makes a conference a community.

We are glad you are here.

Emet Conference Team