Evaluating AI-generated claims
Verify AI output with sources suitable for the claim and decision.
Covered in this guide
- Break generated output into checkable claims.
- Select primary or authoritative sources.
- Record unsupported statements and uncertainty.
Confident wording is not evidence. Verification starts by isolating each material claim and asking what source would be authoritative for that claim, in that jurisdiction and at that date.
Treat fluent text as an unverified draft
Confident wording is not evidence. Verification starts by isolating each material claim and asking what source would be authoritative for that claim, in that jurisdiction and at that date.
A summary that invented a source
An AI assistant gives a plausible university application deadline without citing the admissions page. The date may be outdated or belong to another programme.
Try this
Describe the verification steps before advising an applicant.
Review answer guidance
Open the official programme and admissions pages, confirm the entry year, candidate category and time zone, check the page's update date, and preserve the link used. If official sources conflict, contact admissions rather than guessing.
Where this appears in the assessment
Isolate each factual claim. Ask what primary source would confirm it. If the task does not supply that source, say the claim is unverified rather than repeating it.