The quick read
- Take a sentence from an AI summary and ask where it came from.
- Show evidence near important conclusions and distinguish facts from the assistant’s suggested interpretation.
What a grounded answer needs
A grounded response uses relevant supplied or retrieved material to support its claims. The source must actually contain the information, and the answer must preserve its meaning. An authoritative-looking link is not enough if it points to a page that discusses a different situation.
Follow the chain
Take a sentence from an AI summary and ask where it came from. Check the document version, the quoted or paraphrased passage and any conditions around it. If the sentence combines several sources, identify which source supports each part. This makes disagreement easier to locate.
Design for inspection
Show evidence near important conclusions and distinguish facts from the assistant’s suggested interpretation. When a source is incomplete, say what is missing. For a small pilot, ask reviewers to verify several randomly selected claims rather than reading only the most impressive output. Grounding can improve transparency, but it remains possible to cite the right document and draw the wrong conclusion. The strongest workflow makes both the evidence and the reasoning behind its use open to review.
Sources & notes
AI-assisted editorial content checked against the linked sources.
Lewis and colleagues: Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Sources reviewed for the September 2026 launch edition.