Definition
Plain language
A standard saying every claim in an AI-generated paper must be traceable back to a real source.
As stated in the literature
A verifiability contract for autonomous research agents requiring every citation, number, method description, and conclusion to point to a recorded grounding artifact (paper, log line, or code), framed by analogy to ACID guarantees in databases.
Also called: CoE, CoE Integrity Audit
Why it matters: It's what separates a trustworthy autonomous research agent from one that confidently fabricates plausible-sounding citations and numbers.
For example, a claim that 'method X improves accuracy by 3 points' must link back to the exact log line and code commit where that number was produced.
Heard on the show
“… The paper is "ScientistOne: Towards Human-Level Autonomous Research via Chain-of-Evidence," from a group at Google Cloud AI Research, posted to arXiv on May twenty-fifth, twenty-twenty-six …”Episode 089 — When AI-Written Papers Read Well But the Evidence Underneath Is Broken