Island 4 of 6 · 6 minutes

Be the boss: AI makes mistakes

Your superpower is checking the robot's work.

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The confident goof-up

Ask an AI how many R's are in 'strawberry' and it might cheerfully say two. (Count them — it's three!) AI mistakes are sneaky because the AI never sounds unsure. It says wrong things in the same confident voice as right things.

For grown-ups

This lesson normalizes AI fallibility (including the term 'hallucination') and builds a verification habit scaled to stakes. The 'Catch the Robot' game flips the power dynamic: instead of treating the AI as an oracle, kids learn to audit it — the single most protective digital-literacy habit they can carry into adulthood.