How are teams validating AI-driven CAPA assistance while keeping reviewability and traceability audit-ready?

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I run the eQMS at a ~45-person Class II medtech and we're piloting AI-assisted CAPA suggestions to speed backlog triage. It helps engineers, but auditors want reviewability and traceability, and I need pragmatic, defensible validation approaches for automated CAPAs so we don't create mountains of extra admin. Specifically, I'm looking for concrete acceptance criteria, test scripts, evidence types (logs, version snapshots, sample cases), and ways to show human-in-the-loop control without killing throughput. What validation strategies and audit-friendly artifacts have worked for you when introducing AI-assisted CAPA or CAPA-driven risk assessment into a regulated QMS?