archival governance

Royal Dutch Shell’s long shadow across the 20th and 21st centuries is no longer a private ledger of corporate decisions; it has become public material for historians, shareholders, litigants—and now generative AIs. The result is a blunt, inconvenient question for the board at Shell’s next AGM...

A sharply worded satirical post on RoyalDutchShellPlc.com — written with generative tools, analyzed by another AI, and published by a human editor — has quietly become a live case study in how satire, defamation law, and AI-driven journalism now intersect, with practical lessons for reporters...