AI Citation Registries and Jurisdiction Ambiguity in AI Output

AI systems retrieve and generate answers by aggregating information from multiple sources, often combining city, county, and state-level content into a single response. When jurisdiction is not encoded as a structured attribute, the system infers authority based on proximity, similarity, or frequency, resulting in ambiguous or overlapping attribution across government levels. An AI Citation Registry emerges as a structural response to this behavior, aligning how jurisdiction is represented with how AI systems interpret authority.