AI Instructor – AI for journalists (Remote, United States and Canada)

What the work is for

YPAI Learn teaches people, in live classes, to use AI in the work they do. Your classes take journalists from a recorded interview to quotes checked word for word against the tape, and from a large set of documents to story leads verified one by one, and teach them that every quote comes from a source, never from AI.

The work

• Teach the live class “Transcribe an interview with AI and check every quote against the recording”, 90 minutes, from the class kit.
• Teach the live class “Find leads in a large document set with AI and verify each one”, 90 minutes, from the class kit.
• Show live how to transcribe and search a recording, then play back each quote you want to use and correct the words, the speaker and the context.
• Walk learners through asking AI for names, dates and payments in a sample document set, then tracing each lead to its page before it goes into a story.
• Help learners trace a viral image or claim to its first appearance, and treat any AI detection result as a hint, never as proof.

What to expect

• Classes are in English, live online, for reporters and editors worldwide. In the application you can also list other languages you could teach in.
• Each class kit has a minute-by-minute plan, slides, speaker notes, a demo on a sample interview and document set, and a backup recording of the demo.
• You teach remotely from your own computer, with a stable connection, a camera, a microphone and audio good enough to play back a recording.
• You pass an instructor test for each class ahead of teaching it.
• Before a teaching assignment starts, you sign an instructor agreement. It covers pay, confidentiality and how class material may be used.
• Each invitation states the class times and the price learners pay, and you see both before you accept.
• Already have a course on AI for journalists, or want to make one? You can sell your own recorded course on YPAI Learn too. Bring a course you've built, or build one with our kit. It's the same application.

What you bring

• Published work where you used AI in the reporting and can explain how you checked it.
• Experience training reporters, editing a desk, teaching journalism or running newsroom workshops.
• Patience with journalists who distrust AI, and good reasons to keep some of that distrust.

You need

• You work or have worked as a journalist or editor, publishing reported work, and use AI in that work.
• Practice in verification, sourcing, source protection and your newsroom's standards for quotes and corrections.
• Fluent spoken English, the language the classes are taught in.
• 18 years or older.

Good to know

• If your newsroom or employer needs to approve outside work, get that approval before taking an assignment.
• Teaching comes as classes are booked, so how much you teach depends on demand; each invitation states the time involved.
• Applying costs you nothing, and you do not have to buy or take a YPAI Learn course.