Epistemic Infrastructure: Why Your AI Knows Less Than It Thinks
Opening — Why this matters now The enterprise AI stack has a favorite illusion: if you retrieve the right documents, you will get the right answer. It’s a comforting belief—engineer better embeddings, expand context windows, sprinkle some graph retrieval, and the system will eventually behave. Except it doesn’t. The paper “Retrieval Is Not Enough: Why Organizational AI Needs Epistemic Infrastructure” fileciteturn0file0 argues something quietly inconvenient: the bottleneck is no longer retrieval fidelity—it’s epistemic fidelity. ...