Set Your Verification Stance Before You Share AI Output
Understand how to apply a Light, Medium, or Heavy verification stance before sharing AI outputs in Department of Defense workflows. Learn to identify what checks are needed based on downstream impact, communicate verification clearly, and decide when to stop or escalate to maintain defensible AI use.
The AI Use Intake Note (CP-01) recorded a minimal verification expectation for the case. This lesson turns that idea into a Light, Medium, or Heavy stance you can apply to any AI output.
A fluent AI-assisted draft creates a specific failure. The team forwards it because it reads cleanly. Nobody can say what was checked, what was assumed, or what would make them stop. The mistake is not trusting the AI too much in the abstract. The mistake is treating a draft as shareable without deciding what evidence it needs first.
That gap usually comes from work pressure that feels like a schedule problem. The draft is due, a reviewer is waiting, and the AI output looks like it already did the hard part. What actually decides the risk is ...