From Plausibility to Verifiability: The PEARLS Framework for Developing Epistemic Agency in Generative AI-Mediated Higher Education
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has sharply reduced the cost of producing fluent explanations, syntheses, analyses, code, and recommendations, but it has not reduced the intellectual work required to establish whether those outputs deserve belief or use. This asymmetry creates a plausibility-verifiability ga...