Maroons For Life is produced by a small team, and we use AI tools to do more than a small team otherwise could. We’d rather tell you how than have you wonder.
What AI helps with
Drafting. Interview outlines, episode descriptions, newsletter copy, and social posts often start as an AI draft. A person edits all of them before it’s published.
Transcription and editing. Podcast episodes are transcribed by AI, and we use it to find the strongest moments for clips and to tighten long conversations.
Research. Background on a guest, a campus program, or a topic an alum raises on the show. We verify anything we publish.
Production. Captions, formatting, image sizing, and the hundred small tasks that come with publishing every other Friday.
What AI does not do
It does not conduct interviews. Every Maroons In Motion and Maroons Insider conversation is a real person talking to a real person.
It does not write class notes. Yours appears as you sent it, edited only for length and style.
It does not invent quotes, facts, or stories. If a guest said it, they said it. If we got it wrong, that’s on us, and we’ll correct it.
It does not decide what we cover or what storie to tell. People do.
It does not generate the voices or likenesses of real people. Audio and video of guests is the real recording.
How we handle your information
Submissions and subscriber data are not used to train AI models. Where we use AI tools, we use settings that keep content out of training data. We never share subscriber lists.
Why we’re telling you this
Roanoke College teaches students to use these tools thoughtfully, including in the WorkAI Lab. Maroons For Life should model the same thing: clear about what the tools do, clear about where the judgment is human.
Questions about any of this? Write to maroonsforlife@roanoke.edu.