assurance

The sequel to the calibration gap: some governance claims have no number, and that does not excuse them from evidence. Pre-register the rule, invite the refutation, name the residual, report honestly.

AI governance keeps choosing between rigorous-but-slow validation and fast-but-unfalsifiable frameworks. The escape is the experiment itself: for any measurable claim, the measurement is the faster path.

When agents generate faster than anyone can read, the standard answer is a second model reviewing the first. Aerospace decomposed what makes a check independent decades ago, and a reviewer model fails the hardest of the three tests.