The meeting is routine.

The agenda is familiar. Material influences. External inputs. Decision context.

Near the end, a question is raised. Not as an accusation. Not as a concern. As a checkbox.

“Was any external AI-generated analysis relied upon, directly or indirectly, in forming this view?”

No one speaks.

Not because the answer is controversial. Because no one knows how to answer it.

They are asking the wrong question. The right question is about the trustworthiness of sources, not about whether AI was used.