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Aug 14, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Retrieval ≠ Trust: The Three-Ledger Framework for Reliable RAG Answers

The article explains why improved retrieval in knowledge base assistants undermines trust, detailing how versioning, scope, and authority gaps create unreliable answers, and proposes a three-ledger framework—source, claim, and boundary—to make RAG outputs verifiable and governance-ready.