Verifying Machines: Fact-Checking AI Output
Learners who use AI-generated research, summaries, documents or recommendations in business settings.
What you will be able to do
- Separate claims, assumptions, calculations, and citations in AI output.
- Verify factual claims against primary or credible sources.
- Recalculate business figures and identify unsupported reasoning.
- Produce an audit trail with a clear correction decision.
How this is assessed
Audit report on 5 AI-generated business documentsSubmit five audits with claim checks, source records, corrected passages and a risk rating per document. Use real AI output — generate it yourself if you need to — not invented examples.
| Grade | What earns it |
|---|---|
| Pass | Five complete audits covering claims, sources and figures. |
| Merit | Accurate evidence trails a second person could follow and reproduce. |
| Distinction | Concise and decision-ready — a reader knows immediately what to trust and what to act on. |
Before you submit
- Each document is marked up for facts, assumptions, calculations and citations.
- Every citation is checked for existence, accuracy and appropriateness, with dates noted.
- Every material figure is recomputed and the working is shown.
- Each document carries a risk rating and a plain statement on whether it is safe to act on.
- Residual risk — what could not be verified — is stated explicitly.
Handing it in
Marked by a researcher, analyst, editor, auditor or consultant with demonstrable experience validating market, financial or operational claims. You will need an account to submit, so that the mark has somewhere to land. Sign in or create one. The modules are open either way.
Modules
4 modules, self-paced. Nothing is timed and nothing is scored.
- 1Claim anatomyDecompose an AI-generated business document.
- 2Source checkingValidate citations, dates, and authority.
- 3Number checkingReproduce calculations and assumptions.
- 4Audit writingFindings, corrections, and residual risk.
This course stacks
Uses AI competently, knows what it does to the people downstream, and checks its output before anybody acts on it.
A credential is issued when all of its artifacts have passed. It records the courses, the bands and the dates, nothing else, and no score.