Upstream Hallucination Drift, Part II: The Audit Imperative

Your AI system passed the audit. The reasoning was sound. The output was polished. And it was built on a lie it told itself in step two.In Part II of Upstream Hallucination Drift, we move from anatomy to defense. We break down why your current governance framework is auditing the wrong thing — and introduce the enterprise defense stack that actually catches reasoning failures before they become confident disasters. Including Signature Goal Alignment: the discipline that keeps AI answering your question, not its own.The audit has to move upstream. This episode shows you how.