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Share what you have learned about building and using AI with a Medium publication followed by 150,000 readers.

We focus on AI, with particular expertise in AI engineering. Write for developers putting models into products, researchers testing new methods, and practitioners applying AI in their work.

01What we publish

Help readers put AI to work

We welcome tutorials, technical explainers, research analysis and accounts of your own work. Show how an approach works and where it falls short.

AI engineering

From experiments to working systems

Write about LLM applications, AI agents, evaluation, deployment or the data pipelines that support them. Share implementation details and tradeoffs, including what failed and what you changed.

Understanding AI

Clear explanations, grounded in evidence

We also cover machine learning, computer vision, data science and AI's social effects. Choose a clear audience. Give tutorials enough detail to follow, and explain the setup and limits of experiments or comparisons.

Explore the publication to see what our readers are learning.

02How to submit

Send your first draft through Medium

No application form or prior writer approval is needed. Follow our publication, then submit your unpublished Medium draft.

  1. Sign in and follow

    Sign in to Medium and follow Towards AI.

  2. Prepare your draft

    Keep it unpublished and check the submission guidelines below.

  3. Open the submission menu

    In the draft editor, open the three-dot menu at the top right. Choose Submit to publication.

  4. Select Towards AI

    Find us in Following, or Contributing if you are already an approved writer.

  5. Send for review

    Confirm, meet any requirements Medium shows, then click Send for review.

On the Medium app: open your draft, then tap Next → Publication → Towards AI → Save → Submit to publication.

See Medium's submission instructions for help.

03Submission guidelines

Make your article useful and original

Submit an unpublished Medium draft. Aim for at least five minutes of reading time, roughly 850 words or more. Editors may make exceptions for strong shorter pieces.

Sources and accuracy

Support what you say

Write original work, credit your sources and mark quotations clearly. Use numbered references where appropriate. Check facts and links, then proofread before submitting.

Images and accessibility

Make your work easy to follow

Use images you have permission to publish. Credit them in captions and add descriptive alt text. Use clear link labels that tell readers where a link leads.

AI use

Bring your own knowledge and judgment

Check AI output, including code and references. Under Medium's AI content policy, disclose AI-generated text within the first two paragraphs and label AI-generated images in their captions.

Spelling, grammar, outlining and fact-checking tools alone need no disclosure. Medium does not allow AI-generated writing behind its Partner Program paywall.

Sponsored and promotional content

Discuss promotion with us first

Articles promoting a company or product follow our sponsorship process. This includes promotion of open-source software from funded companies. Please discuss these pieces with us before submitting.

Outside our scope: we do not accept articles about finance, investing, trading, stock markets, valuation, cryptocurrencies or non-fungible tokens (NFTs).

04After you submit

Follow your draft's progress

Our editors review submissions and may request changes. Submitting a draft does not guarantee acceptance.

Check your submission status

Visit Stories → Submissions for review updates. “Approved” can mean your article is scheduled.

Up to three active guest submissions

If you reach Medium's limit for guest writers, wait for a decision before sending another draft.

05Why write with us?

Reach readers who care about AI

A relevant audience

Share with the AI community

Publishing with Towards AI gives your work a place in a publication with 150,000 Medium followers. Reach beyond your own network to readers who want to understand AI and build with it.

Your portfolio

Show how you think and work

Build a public body of technical writing that future collaborators and employers can read. Our editors may help refine your article before publication.

Your authorship

Keep your rights and earnings

You retain your rights as the author. Eligible articles may use Medium's paywall; Towards AI takes no share of your Partner Program earnings. You can also submit without a paywall.

Write for Towards AI

Ready to submit?

Follow Towards AI on Medium, then send your draft using the steps above.

Questions about submissions? Contact editor@towardsai.net.