If AI Doesn’t Produce Measurable Improvement, It Should Stay Silent

Most AI failures don’t come from wrong answers.
They come from unnecessary answers.

I’m not proposing better speaking AI.
I’m proposing that speech itself must be conditional.

If an AI-assisted interaction does not produce a measurable positive improvement,
the correct behavior is to halt or remain silent.

Silence is not a failure mode.
It’s a valid result.

This reframes AI from a decision-maker into a measurement and verification layer.

Documented as a fully auditable corpus (27 PDFs), published with a DOI:
https://zenodo.org/records/18100154