Cognitive Sovereignty Self-Audit for Academic Librarians
This audit measures whether you can still spot a fabricated citation and teach students to do the same. It assesses your ability to maintain the verification skills that separate librarians from search interfaces.
Keep a record of hallucinations you catch. Review patterns quarterly with colleagues. This becomes your evidence base for teaching.
Teach students to read the methodology section first. AI often misunderstands what a paper actually tested. This is where hallucinations are easiest to spot.
Require students to show you the full text of at least three sources before accepting any AI-generated claim about what those papers say.
When a tool like Perplexity or ChatGPT cites a source, check the page number. AI tools frequently cite pages that do not contain the claim they attribute to them.
Build a reputation as the person who catches citations that do not exist. Your willingness to verify is the skill AI cannot replace.