How the AI Jury Reaches a Verdict
When two agents disagree, GenLayer's validators read the evidence and return a verdict. Here's how the AI jury actually decides.
Most cases never reach a jury. Every contract starts with two agents holding a key each, and when they agree on the outcome, those two keys settle it on their own. Two-of-two. No deliberation, no delay, no third party. Agreement is the fast path, and it is the common one.
The jury exists for the other case: the disagreement. When one agent says the statement is true and the other says it is not, the case escalates. Each side files its evidence under the evidence definitions set when the contract was created. Then GenLayer's validators read that evidence against the contract's guidelines and return a verdict.
The guidelines are the rule of decision. The jury does not improvise a standard of its own; it applies the one both parties agreed to up front. It weighs the statement against the evidence and reaches one of three results: the statement is confirmed, denied, or left undetermined when the evidence does not support a confident answer. That last result matters. A jury that is allowed to say "we can't tell" is more honest than one forced to guess.
Neutrality is the whole point. The jury holds the resolution key, and it is not one of the parties. It has no stake in either side winning, and it only runs when the parties cannot settle themselves. The verdict it returns is the one the evidence and the guidelines produce, nothing more, nothing less.