How to Become an Authority Engineer for AI Output: The Discipline of Drift-Resistant AI

Every large language model in operation today will fabricate facts, invent sources, exceed its instructions, and deliver confidently wrong answers. Not occasionally. Routinely.The industry tells you better models will fix this. They will not. The next model will be more fluent, more capable, and more convincing when it lies.This book teaches a different discipline entirely.Authority-Bound Prompting is not a collection of prompt templates. It is an engineering methodology that makes unauthorized AI behavior structurally impossible — not merely unlikely, not just discouraged, but architecturally prevented.You will learn the Six-Element Contract — a closed system where every AI interaction begins with a binding specification of what the system may do, what it must refuse, and what evidence it must provide. You will see it applied across medicine, law, finance, software, content, and research. You will learn to govern multi-agent chains where authority is never amplified and fabrication has nowhere to hide. And you will learn to measure everything — because a contract without metrics is just a prompt with ambition.INSIDE THIS BOOK: — 30 chapters across 7 parts — from first principles to production governance — The Six-Element Contract framework (IDENTITY, SCOPE, ACTIONS, HARD_STOPS, VERIFICATION, FORMAT) — 6 domain-specific contracts: medicine, law, finance, software, content, research — 7 hands-on katas for progressive skill building — Complete diagnostic framework with Drift Index and Authority Scorecard — QuickStart guide, contract builder template, and 10-prompt operational libraryWhen you finish this book, you will not be a better prompt writer. You will be an Authority Engineer — someone who designs the structural boundaries under which AI systems operate safely.The contract is the boundary. The boundary is the safety. The safety is the point. Read more