Check and re-check
Google CEO Sundar Pichai made the news in the UK last week during an interview about AI.
He talked about many things, however, the thing that caught many people’s attention was the fact that people who use its AI tools shouldn’t ‘...blindly trust everything they say.’
Gina Neff, professor of responsible AI at Queen Mary University of London when asked to comment, said "We know these systems make up answers, and they make up answers to please us - and that's a problem."
AI definitely has its issues currently and if the CEO of Google says it shouldn’t be completely trusted, then that’s a warning to be heeded, yet, I worked with many humans who couldn’t be trusted either!
What it emphasises more than anything else is the need to check and re-check the quality of work before it’s submitted.
Whether the information required to produce an output comes from AI or a colleague, verification of information matters. Quality outputs are only guaranteed when we build verification habits into our workflow.
It's a choice between complacency and diligence. When we assume any source is infallible, we're setting ourselves up for failure. The best teams I've worked with treat everything as draft material until verified.
They question, cross-reference, and prove. Not out of distrust, but out of professional rigour. This mindset transforms how people work together, creating cultures where accuracy matters as much as speed, and where logic and questioning becomes a competitive advantage.
Trust, whether in technology or teammates, is always earned through consistent checking and rechecking.
