Decisions
Authority Borrowing
Letting the model's confident tone carry a claim you have not verified.
How it feels
The claim feels safer because the sentence arrives with institutional calm.
At work
A report includes a confident statistic from AI because it sounds citation-ready, but no one finds the primary source.
Hidden cost
Decisions: confidence substitutes for verification.
You may have this if
Can you point to the primary source for the strongest claim in the output?
Try this instead
Use the primary-source rule: any claim that changes a decision must be verified outside the model.
Team rule
No AI-sourced claim enters a decision doc without a human-checked source link.
Related book concept
Primary-source verification and Decisions circuit.
Evidence notes
The site provenance page states that numeric claims in the manuscript were verified against primary sources.
Authority Borrowing names the opposite workflow: accepting confidence without source ownership.
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