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This article highlights a critical gap in organizational preparedness: the inability to prove what AI systems have stated about a company, even when those statements influence real-world decisions. It argues this is an evidence problem, not an AI safety issue, and urges organizations to consider how to create auditable records of AI-generated company summaries.
AI 生成摘要
本文探討了組織準備上的一項關鍵缺失：即使AI系統的總結影響了實際決策，組織也無法證明AI曾說過什麼。文章認為這是一個證據問題，而非AI安全問題，並敦促組織思考如何為AI生成的公司總結建立可審計的記錄。
Yesterday, an AI system likely described your company to someone.
Not to you.Not inside your systems.To a third party.
A journalist preparing background.An analyst framing a comparison.A counterparty forming an initial view.A regulator doing informal research.
It did so fluently, confidently, and without leaving you a copy.
Here is the question that matters:
If that description later becomes relevant, can you reconstruct exactly what was shown, when, and in what form?
Not what your filings say.Not what your policies intend.What the AI actually produced at the moment it was relied upon.
For most organizations, the answer is no.
This is not about hallucinations, bias, or rogue models.It is not about AI systems you built, deployed, or approved.
It is about evidence.
General-purpose AI systems now act as informal narrative intermediaries. When prompted about an organization, they synthesize public information into confident, evaluative summaries that resemble disclosure, diligence, or risk narratives.
Those summaries influence real decisions.They rarely leave an attributable, time-indexed record.
The absence only becomes visible after something goes wrong.
You are exposed if any of the following are true:
If none apply, stop reading.
If one applies, keep going.
Consider a common sequence:
At that point:
There is no misconduct here.Only absence of record.
Most existing AI governance assumes one of two conditions:
External AI violates both.
Because the system is third-party and informal, it sits outside model risk, cyber, and traditional AI oversight. Because the output is ephemeral, it does not meet evidentiary standards once challenged.
This is why the issue typically surfaces during inquiry, dispute, or discovery rather than during design or deployment.
This leads to a simple but unresolved question:
Who inside your organization is accountable for AI-generated representations you did not produce but that others rely upon?
In most organizations, the honest answer is: no one.
Not because of neglect, but because the risk category has not yet been named.
This is not a hypothetical or a forecast.
As AI systems increasingly mediate how organizations are described, compared, and assessed, the absence of a recoverable record is already becoming visible in legal review, diligence processes, and informal regulatory inquiry.
Not an accuracy problem.A provenance problem.
If an AI summarized your company today and that summary mattered tomorrow, could you produce it?
If the answer is uncertain, that uncertainty is the issue.
We are documenting how organizations are beginning to confront this evidentiary gap across regulated and non-regulated sectors.
If this question is already circulating inside your organization, you are not early.If it is not, you likely will be.
