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I want to find out whether the evidence gate I created actually works. I will compare an AI without the gate to an AI with the gate, using the same cases and the same information.
I want to test whether the evidence gate I created actually reduces unsupported AI decisions. I will compare the same AI workflow with and without the gate using the same cases and information, and measure both unsupported decisions and whether useful decisions are preserved.
The funding will support research time, model/API inference and compute, evaluation infrastructure, independent methodological review, and documentation/publication. The target budget is $5,000, with a $3,000 minimum viable study. The money will be used to produce the benchmark, run the baseline and gated evaluations, analyze the results, document failures, and complete independent review.
I am currently the primary researcher, with no formally committed external collaborators. This project grows out of my practical work developing AI HITS, an evidence-oriented AI decision system with evidence handling, decision boundaries, and audit workflows. The existing prototype motivates the research question but is not treated as proof that the hypothesis is correct. This project is intended to test the question empirically with controlled evaluation and independent methodological review.
The project may fail if the hypothesis is not supported by controlled evaluation, if the system produces unreliable decisions, or if the approach does not generalize beyond the prototype environment. Other risks include insufficient evaluation data, implementation constraints, and methodological issues identified through independent review. In that case, the outcome would be a negative or inconclusive result and a clearer understanding of the approach’s limitations, which would inform whether to redesign, refine, or abandon the underlying idea.
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