The Question Isn't Whether AI Wrote It—It's Whether You Can Defend It

AI detectors don't work — Turnitin admits it, MIT says it flatly, OpenAI shut its own tool down. So why are compliance teams, consulting firms, and intelligence units still being asked to prove AI didn't touch their reports? That's the wrong question. Here's the one that actually matters, and the four pillars that separate defensible AI-assisted work from a draft nobody can stand behind.