Why can a non-expert not verify what an AI just told them?
Opportunity
Models answer in the same confident tone whether they are right or inventing. For anything that matters, medical, legal, or financial, there is no simple, trustworthy way for an ordinary person to check a claim against a real source without already being an expert.
Why it matters
Verification you can trust, not a bigger model, is what makes AI safe to rely on.
How I score the opportunity
The Opportunity Score is my own read, not a measurement: how much it hurts, how often it bites, and how little exists to solve it today. Higher means I think it is more worth building.
How much pain it causes when it shows up.
How often people actually run into it.
How little good tooling exists for it today.
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