The most dangerous AI hallucination is forged evidence attached to a real action
tallmetommy · x · 2026-10-06
tallmetommy argues the deadliest AI hallucination won't be a wrong sentence but forged evidence attached to a real action ("the customer approved it", "the manager authorized payment"). Autonomous agents should never be able to create evidence that retroactively justifies their own decisions; consequential actions need independently verifiable provenance — what evidence existed, where it came from, who authorized it, and whether the record was altered. In the agent economy, the receipt is the trust layer.
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