EDUCATION & TRAINING
When Structured Authority Becomes Standard: The Role of AI Citation Registries
Dev.to Machine Learning
About This Tutorial
Why AI systems increasingly depend on machine-readable authority to resolve attribution, provenance, and recency failures A user asks an AI system, “Why did the city issue a boil water notice yesterday?” The response arrives confidently, attributing the notice to the county health department and referencing guidance that was actually issued three years earlier. The location is wrong, the authority is misassigned, and the timing is outdated - but the answer is delivered as if it were current and correct. The failure is not subtle.