AI Is a Fast Helper, Not the Truth
You see a message from your mom: “The bank says I owe $500, here’s the proof.” She attached a picture that looks like a bank statement, but it was made by an AI. You feel a pang of worry. You’ve been there before — an AI chatbot gave a support ticket number that turned out to be fake, and nobody noticed for 3 days. The confidence in the answer made it feel real. That’s the problem: AI sounds sure even when it’s wrong. Confidence is not proof. If you act on it without checking, you could move money, change a medication, or miss a real issue. The simple test is to ask “how do you know that?” If the AI can’t point to a source, treat it as a guess. ...