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Design Systems that Document AI
Out of 156 public design systems surveyed, only 26 address AI in any meaningful way — through labels, chat patterns, explainability frameworks, or ethics guidelines. Despite never coordinating, leading teams like IBM, AWS, GitLab, and Microsoft independently converged on four core principles: always mark AI-generated content, explain it in layers, keep humans in control, and design explicitly for failure. Critical gaps remain across nearly all systems, including guidance on confidence levels, hallucination recovery, user correction loops, and agent permissions.
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