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How to ThinkIn the Age of AI
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Conduct periodic authority audits by listing every source…

Conduct periodic authority audits by listing every source shaping beliefs in a domain and evaluating each against basis of trust, scope of expertise, and verification recency, because authority delegations accumulate unconsciously and drift without detection.

Why This Is a Principle

Derives from Knowledge that exists only in tacit form degrades without… (tacit knowledge degrades without detection), Exponential Information Decay (information decays), and Memory is reconstructive, not reproductive—humans rebuild… (memory is reconstructive). Prescribes systematic review process. This is principle-level because it describes the general practice structure, not specific domain rules.