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ai answer verification: the provenance-first protocol

use ai safely as a clinician: require sources, quote-check key claims, triangulate across independent references, and detect hallucination patterns in seconds.

The Bottom Line

  • AI is best treated as a fast research assistant — not an authority.
  • Your safety move is provenance: every key claim needs a source you can inspect.
  • Use “Cite → Quote → Corroborate”: source the claim, verify the quote, cross-check elsewhere.

High-risk failure mode

If an AI gives confident specificity without traceable sources (names, numbers, thresholds, “rules”), assume it may be wrong until verified.

Hallucination tells (pattern recognition)

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SourceNIST AI Risk Management Framework (official): governance and risk thinking
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SourceBMJ: How to read a paper (use it to verify claims)
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