September 9, 2026 RAG & LLM Systems
How Often Is a Research Agent's Confidence Label Right? 156 Claims Checked Against the EU AI Act
My research agent marks every claim as high, medium or low confidence, based on its sources. I had 156 of its claims checked against official sources. The low-confidence claims were right as often as the high ones, most wrong claims cited good sources but got a detail wrong, and the model's own stated confidence did better than the source-based score.