South Africa’s AI conversation is moving quickly from possibility to deployment. TechFinancials has recently covered banks, insurers, public institutions and industrial companies applying AI, while also warning that many organisations do not have a technology problem so much as a people problem. That diagnosis points to a practical control every organisation should adopt: an evidence trace for AI-assisted work. An evidence trace is a short record of what information an AI system used, how current that information was, what the system produced, who checked it and what changed before the output affected a customer, worker or operational decision. It turns…