Human rights activist
You are the one who has to make somebody act on what you found.
This is you if you take testimony, check what other people are posting, brief journalists and diplomats, and file the submission nobody else will.
You will recognise this work
You collect testimony, check claims, brief people who can act, and turn evidence into a submission or campaign. The same details that make the evidence useful can identify a witness or expose a location. Your first AI decision is therefore about the material, not the tool.
Outcomes you own
- A record that preserves what a person actually said.
- A claim that can be traced back to evidence.
- A briefing or submission that protects the people behind it.
Where AI helps, and where it stops
- AI can assist: transcribe a recording on an offline computer, organise public material, or reshape points you have already checked.
- You decide: what is relevant, what is safe to disclose, and whether the evidence supports the conclusion.
- Never delegate: consent, credibility, risk to a person, or the final decision to publish.
Your priority tasks
Protect it, check it, then communicate it. Each task makes the next one safer.
- Protecting sensitive information
- Verifying images, video and claims
- Drafting reports and advocacy material
Tools matched to this role
Read the safety verdict before the feature list. A free cloud tool and a verified offline tool are not interchangeable when a file identifies someone.
- Controlled route for sensitive materialHas a free versionWorks offlineWorks in Iraq
- Never for sensitive materialHas a free versionWorks in Iraq
- Only approved or redacted sensitive materialHas a free versionWorks offlineWorks in Iraq, but not fully
- Only approved or redacted sensitive materialHas a free versionWe do not know whether it works in Iraq
- Only approved or redacted sensitive materialHas a free versionWorks in Iraq
- Controlled route for sensitive materialHas a free versionWorks offlineWorks in Iraq
Your data risks
Keep these decisions with a person
- Do not send names, contact details, exact locations, full testimony, or raw recordings to a consumer cloud service.
- Removing a name may not remove identity. A village, date, job, and injury can identify one person when combined.
- Do not treat a model’s confidence, detector score, or fluent summary as evidence.
Workshop path
- Classify one realistic sample as public, internal, or identifiable. Use a synthetic sample in the workshop, not a real case.
- Follow one linked recipe and record what leaves the device at each step.
- Check the output against the original, then write the human approval point into the workflow.
Leave with
A one-page evidence workflow naming the allowed data class, approved route, verification check, final reviewer, and what must never enter an AI tool.
Prompts for this role
Transcription
Controlled route
Clean up a transcript without changing what was said
25 minutes · Gives you short sections
Do not paste this into a cloud tool.
Answer in [ANSWER LANGUAGE], even if the material below is in another language. Below is a machine transcript of a recorded interview, and it stays on my own computer, so work only with what is here and keep the whole answer local. Clean it up for reading. You may: - Fix punctuation, capitalisation and the obvious spelling of the names I list below. - Remove filler sounds and repeated false starts. - Keep the speaker labels exactly as they are. You may NOT: - Complete an unfinished sentence. - Replace a word you think was misheard. - Reorder anything. - Remove a repetition that carries meaning. Keep every [inaudible] marker and its timestamp where it is. Give me, in this order: A. The cleaned transcript. B. A list of every change you made that was more than punctuation, with the original wording beside it. C. The lines you could not make sense of, quoted, so a person can listen again. Names and terms spelled correctly: [LIST THE NAMES AND PLACES] Transcript: [PASTE THE TRANSCRIPT]
Research
Redact first
Build a dated timeline from your notes
25 minutes · Gives you a table
Answer in [ANSWER LANGUAGE], even if the material below is in another language. Below are notes from several sources, with names and identifying details already removed. Build a timeline from them. Rules: 1. Use only what the notes say. Infer nothing. Never calculate or guess a date. 2. One row per event. If two notes describe the same event, merge them into one row and list both sources. 3. If an event has no date, it goes in the undated list, not in the table. 4. Mark each row STATED if the note gives the date, or UNCLEAR if the note is ambiguous about it. 5. Copy each date in the form the note wrote it. Where the notes mix digits, ١٢٣ alongside 123, or write one date two ways, keep both and mark the row UNCLEAR. 6. Name people only by the label the notes use. Never replace a label with a real name. Give me, in this order: A. A table with these columns: date, what happened, where, who the note names, source note, STATED or UNCLEAR. B. Undated events, as a list, each with its source note. C. Contradictions between the notes, quoted on both sides. D. What a reader would need next to close each contradiction. If you are reading on a phone, replace the table with one block per row: a heading line, then one short labelled line per column. Notes: [PASTE THE REDACTED NOTES]
Verification
Public material only
Build a verification checklist for a claim
15 minutes · Gives you a checklist · Works on a phone
Answer in [ANSWER LANGUAGE], even if the material below is in another language. I have a claim I cannot verify yet. Do NOT tell me whether it is true, and do not estimate how likely it is. I need a plan for checking it. Rules: 1. Give no verdict. Do not write "probably", "likely", "appears genuine" or any other judgement of the claim. 2. Do not perform the checks. Do not search. Write the plan only. 3. Name people by type of person or institution, never by name. 4. If a check needs something I did not give you, say what it is instead of assuming it. The claim: [WRITE THE CLAIM IN ONE SENTENCE] What I have: [DESCRIBE WHAT YOU HAVE: a photo, a video, a document, a forwarded message, a screenshot] What I already know: [DATE, PLACE, WHO IS SAYING IT, WHERE IT CAME FROM] Give me, in this order: A. What would have to be true for this claim to hold, as separate testable statements. B. The checks, ordered from cheapest to most expensive, and for each one the result that would support the claim and the result that would refute it. C. What evidence would disprove the claim, and who could confirm or refute it locally, by type of person or institution and never by name. D. What cannot be checked from the material I have, including what you, as a language model, cannot check at all.
Protecting information
Redact first
Make a redaction checklist before you paste anything
10 minutes · Gives you a checklist · Works on a phone
Answer in [ANSWER LANGUAGE], even if the material below is in another language. I am about to work on a document in an AI tool. Before I do, help me decide what must come out of it. I am not going to paste the document. I will name its type. Rules: 1. Do not ask me to paste the document, and do not ask me for a sample of it. 2. Do not ask where the document came from or who else holds a copy. Neither one is needed for a redaction list. 3. Write for the type I picked. Do not write a general list that would fit any document. 4. Name what must be removed in the words that really appear on a page of this type, so I can find them by eye. The type of document, pick one: [AN INTAKE FORM / A WITNESS STATEMENT / A PAYROLL SHEET / A CASE LOG / A PARTNER REPORT / A MEETING RECORD] Who appears in it: [BY ROLE OR CATEGORY ONLY, NEVER BY NAME] What I want the AI tool to do with it: [DESCRIBE THE TASK IN ONE SENTENCE] Give me, in this order: A. What must be removed before a document of this type goes into any tool that is not on our own machine. B. The details people leave in that still identify someone once they are combined: a village name plus an age, a rare job title, the date of an event only a few people attended. List the ones that apply to this document type. C. What may stay because the task needs it, then the order of work, so a partly redacted copy is never saved over the original. D. How to check the redaction worked, including what to search for, such as mixed digits: ١٢٣ alongside 123, and then whether this task can be done at all with the material redacted, or whether it needs a route where nothing leaves our own machine.
Translation
Redact first
Check a Sorani translation line by line against the Arabic
15 minutes · Gives you a table
Answer in [ANSWER LANGUAGE], even if the material below is in another language. Below is an Arabic text, then a Kurdish Sorani translation of it. Compare the two. You are checking a translation, not producing one. Rules: 1. Work line by line, in the order of the Arabic. 2. Copy the Arabic line and the Sorani line as they are. Write the verdict and the note in the language named above. 3. Give each line one verdict only: same meaning, weaker, stronger, missing, added. 4. Where the verdict is not "same meaning", add one plain sentence saying what the difference is. No grammar terms. 5. Treat every figure, date and name as a line of its own. Mixed digits (١٢٣ alongside 123) count as a difference and must be reported. 6. Never offer a corrected wording, not once. Reporting the difference is the whole job. Give me, in this order: A. A table, one row per line of the Arabic: the Arabic line, the Sorani line, the verdict, the note. B. How many lines got each verdict. C. The lines a fluent Sorani speaker should look at first, most serious first. D. Last of all, this sentence: machine output in Kurdish Sorani needs a fluent speaker to read it before it is used anywhere. If you are reading on a phone, replace the table with one block per row: a heading line, then one short labelled line per column. The Arabic: [PASTE THE ARABIC] The Sorani translation: [PASTE THE SORANI TRANSLATION]
Transcription
Redact first
Write a community summary you can read aloud
20 minutes · Gives you a message to send · Works on a phone
Answer in [ANSWER LANGUAGE], even if the material below is in another language. Write a short message that goes back to the people who attended a community meeting. It will be read aloud as well as sent, so write it to be spoken. Rules: 1. Use no personal name, not even a first name. Say "the organisers", "a participant", "the health office". 2. Use no direct quotes. Write what was agreed, not who said what. 3. Promise nothing the notes do not contain. Where the notes do not say who will do a thing, write that it is not decided yet. 4. Short sentences, plain words. No jargon and no abbreviation a first-time reader would not know. 5. Where a date, a place or a figure is not in the notes, leave a clear gap marked [ADD BEFORE SENDING] instead of filling it in. Give me one message, in this order, with no heading longer than one line: A. What the meeting was about, and how many people came if the notes say so, in two or three sentences. B. What was decided. One short sentence each. C. What happens next, including the date of the next meeting, and what is still open. D. How to raise something the meeting missed, in two sentences, using the contact line I paste below. Notes: [PASTE YOUR NOTES] Contact line for the last paragraph: [HOW PEOPLE CAN REACH YOU]
Verification
Public material only
Check a forwarded message in two minutes
10 minutes · Gives you a checklist · Works on a phone
Answer in [ANSWER LANGUAGE], even if the material below is in another language. I have a forwarded message and two minutes. I am standing up, on a phone. Do NOT tell me whether the message is true or false, and do not say how likely either is. Rules: 1. Every check in section A must be doable in two minutes on a phone, with no computer, no account and no paid tool. 2. Public sources only. Do not send me to a login or to a payment. 3. Do not judge the message. Do not add facts of your own about the event it describes. 4. Keep each check to one line. Order them by what rules the message out fastest. Give me, in this order: A. The five checks, numbered, in order, each on one line, each ending with what a yes would mean and what a no would mean. B. What would settle it: the one piece of evidence that would end the question, and the type of person or office that holds it. No names. C. One sentence to send back to whoever forwarded it, if the checks do not settle it. It must ask where the message came from, and must not call it false. D. What you cannot check here at all. The message: [PASTE THE FORWARDED MESSAGE]
Protecting information
Controlled route
Write an incident log entry from rough notes
10 minutes · Gives you short sections
Do not paste this into a cloud tool.
Answer in [ANSWER LANGUAGE], even if the material below is in another language. This tool is running on my own computer and nothing I paste here leaves it. I have rough notes about something that happened, and I need a log entry that still makes sense when it is read months from now. Rules: 1. Use only what is in my notes. Add no cause, no motive, no conclusion. 2. Do not assign blame, and do not say whether what was done was right or wrong. 3. Use only the roles I give you. Write no names, and if a name appears in my notes, replace it with the role. 4. Copy every time and date exactly as I wrote it, including mixed digits: ١٢٣ alongside 123. If a time is missing or approximate, write it as approximate. 5. Anything unclear, contradictory or missing goes in section D. Do not resolve it yourself. 6. Short sentences, past tense, no adjectives that judge. Give me, in this order: A. What happened, as a numbered sequence with the time at the start of each line, and what was done in response on the same line. B. Who was informed, by role, and when each one was informed. C. What is still open, one line each, and who is holding it, by role. D. What is uncertain: missing times, gaps in the sequence, statements that conflict, and anything I wrote that can be read two ways. The roles I use: [LIST THEM BY ROLE, FOR EXAMPLE: the field officer, the office manager, the driver on duty] My notes: [PASTE YOUR ROUGH NOTES]
Protecting information
Public material only
Write a consent script the person can understand
15 minutes · Gives you one page · Works on a phone
Answer in [ANSWER LANGUAGE], even if the material below is in another language. I am about to record a testimony. Write the words I will say out loud to ask for consent, in plain language anyone can follow, including someone who cannot read. The recording will be [AUDIO OR VIDEO]. Ask me nothing about the person: this is a script I speak, not a record about anybody. Rules: 1. Promise nothing I have not told you I can deliver. Where the script needs a fact only I know, leave a blank in square brackets with a short label, for example [WHERE THE FILE IS KEPT]. Never fill such a blank with a guess. 2. Never say the recording is safe, secure, anonymous, or impossible to trace. Say what happens to it, in plain words. 3. Short sentences. One idea per sentence. No legal wording and no form language. 4. Write it to be spoken, so I can read it aloud without stumbling. 5. Say clearly that the person may refuse, may stop at any moment, may answer some questions and not others, and that nothing they receive from us depends on their answer. Give me, in this order: A. The spoken script, covering in this order: what is being recorded and how long it will take, where the file is kept and for how long, who can listen to it, what will be published and where, what will be left out, how the person withdraws, who they contact to withdraw, and the last date on which withdrawal is still possible. B. Three questions to ask afterwards to confirm the person understood, written so that yes or no is not an answer. C. The one line to record at the start of the file to say consent was given, and the fields that line must contain. D. Every square bracket blank you left, gathered in one list, so I can fill them in before I start. Keep the whole page under 400 words.
Research
Public material only
Find out what is wrong with an answer you got
10 minutes · Gives you short sections · Works on a phone
Answer in [ANSWER LANGUAGE], even if the material below is in another language. Below is a prompt I used and the answer I got. I do not trust the answer. Examine it. Do not defend it, and do not rewrite it. I am not asking for a better answer. I am asking what is wrong with this one and what in my wording allowed it. Rules: 1. Judge the answer only against what my prompt gave it. If a claim is not supported by the material or the instructions in my prompt, say so, even when the claim sounds correct. 2. Quote the exact words of the answer you object to. Do not paraphrase them. Copy numbers as they appear, including mixed digits: ١٢٣ alongside 123. 3. Separate two things: a claim that goes beyond what was given, and a detail that appears invented, such as a number, a date, an article number, a page reference, a name or a quotation with no source in my prompt. 4. Add no facts of your own, and do not tell me whether the answer is true in the world. Tell me whether my prompt supports it. 5. If nothing in the answer is unsupported, say that plainly in one line. Give me, in this order: A. Unsupported claims. For each: the quoted words, and one sentence saying what would have had to be in my prompt for the claim to stand. B. Details that appear invented. For each: the quoted detail, its type (number, date, article number, page, name, quotation), and where in my prompt it would have come from if it were real. C. What in my wording allowed it. Point at the exact phrase, or at the instruction that is missing, not at the tool. D. The two changes to my prompt. Write out each replacement line in full, ready for me to copy, and nothing else in this section. The prompt I used: [PASTE THE PROMPT YOU USED] The answer I got: [PASTE THE ANSWER YOU GOT]
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Recipes
- Controlled route for sensitive material60 minutes
- Only approved or redacted sensitive material90 minutes
- Controlled route for sensitive material90 minutes
- Only approved or redacted sensitive material120 minutes
- Controlled route for sensitive material100 minutes
Last checked: 2026-09-01