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Which would you trust more: a friend who sometimes says "I don't know," or one who answers every question instantly, in polished sentences, with total confidence, and is quietly wrong some of the time? Millions of people now consult the second kind of friend every day. It drafts their emails, explains their test results and helps with their homework, and it rarely sounds unsure.

Living well with these tools takes neither fear nor faith, just a clear picture of what happens when a machine predicts your next word, where that trick shines, and where it breaks in ways that look like competence. Along the way come courtrooms embarrassed by invented cases, a chess tournament won by amateurs, a welfare scheme that billed people for debts they did not owe, and an industry that leans on machines only one Dutch company can build. The aim is to treat an AI answer the way you would treat work from a capable but unreliable colleague: useful, worth checking, and owned by someone whose interests citizens have every right to question.

Levels

  1. 1 1. What These Systems Actually Are 5-question quiz
  2. 2 2. What AI Does Well 5-question quiz
  3. 3 3. How AI Fails 5-question quiz
  4. 4 4. Bias and Whose Data 5-question quiz
  5. 5 5. Dependence or Augmentation 5-question quiz
  6. 6 6. Using AI Well 5-question quiz
  7. 7 7. Who Controls AI 5-question quiz
  8. 8 8. Rules, Rights and the Road Ahead 5-question quiz

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