THE GUARDRAIL -- FOR WHEN AI IS CONFIDENTLY WRONG
From "AI for Your Business — Basics", chapter 7
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AI can hand you an answer whose tone is flawless and whose facts are invented --
a made-up price, a date, a "policy" that isn't yours -- and it reads as calm and
certain as the truth. The review gate (chapter 6) catches a wrong TONE at a
glance. It cannot catch a wrong FACT. This does.

⚠️ A gatekeeper who reads the draft without checking the source isn't a
guardrail -- they're a rubber stamp. Good grammar talks busy people out of
checking. This rule stops that.

THE PRINCIPLE:
  Never let AI have the final word on anything you're legally or financially
  responsible for. It drafts; a person with the authority checks the facts
  against a real source, and signs. That's just who carries the can -- you.


THE RULE  (four lines; pin it up)
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1 - TRIGGER  (which outputs get a fact-check -- not everything, just these)
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  Anything with a PRICE, a DATE, a PROMISE, a POLICY, or a legal or money
  figure. Tune this list to your business:
  ______________________________________________________________
  ______________________________________________________________

2 - OWNER  (who checks the high-stakes ones)
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  Checker: ____________________   Backup (when they're away): ____________________

3 - AGAINST  (check it against a real source -- never memory, never the AI itself)
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  A system of record OUTSIDE the tool. Name yours:
    Prices ->  ______________________  (e.g. the live rate sheet)
    Dates / availability ->  ______________________  (e.g. the diary)
    Policies ->  ______________________  (e.g. the written policy)
    ______________________  ->  ______________________

4 - STOP
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  If there's no current, trustworthy source to check it against, it doesn't go.


THE TEST, IN ONE SENTENCE FOR THE TEAM:
  "If you send an AI draft with a price or a date in it without checking the
  live source, you're signing my name to a guess."


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From AI for Your Business - Basics, chapter 7.
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