Before You Trust the AI

An AI answer is a reconstruction—not the source. This field guide helps everyday and professional users inspect fluent answers before those answers acquire more authority than their evidence deserves.

Learn to define the task, separate facts from inference and recommendation, find dangerous omissions, verify according to risk, inspect citations, and build a reliable human–AI review loop.

Inside the 13-page Reader Edition

• The source–projection rule
• A one-sentence task contract
• Five answer layers and how to verify each
• Preservation-and-loss inspection
• Low-, medium-, and high-risk verification
• Adversarial alternatives and source checks
• The seven-step Reality Bridge AI Check
• A worked example and final checklist

Designed for practical AI literacy. It does not replace accountable professional judgment in high-stakes work.