When to Trust AI
AI sounds equally confident when it is right and when it is making things up. Learn why, and the habits that catch the difference before it costs you.
- Why It Makes Things Up Why AI invents convincing falsehoods: it is built to produce plausible-sounding text, not to check whether that text is true.
- Verification Habits A small set of fast routines - asking for sources, cross-checking what matters, and using AI to draft rather than decide - that catch the big mistakes.
- Where It Fails The predictable weak spots - exact arithmetic, recent events, niche facts, your private data, and confident citations - where you should check by default.