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LESSON01.135 minutes

Practical AI foundations

What AI can and cannot do

Separate pattern-generating capability from authority, memory, and accountability.

DIRECT ANSWER

AI can transform, classify, summarize, draft, retrieve, and propose. It does not make a result true, understand your unstated context, own consequences, or replace the person accountable for the work.

Learning outcomes

What you should be able to show.

  1. 01Describe a capability without anthropomorphism
  2. 02Name three failure patterns relevant to your work
  3. 03Assign accountability to a person, not a model

Studio practice

Make the lesson visible.

  1. 01

    Rewrite the claim

    Take one sentence such as ‘AI knows our customers’ and rewrite it as an observable input, transformation, and output.

  2. 02

    Find the missing context

    List the policies, history, relationships, and exceptions a model would not know unless they were supplied and permitted.

  3. 03

    Name the accountable role

    Write who reviews the output, what they inspect, and what decision still belongs to them.

Evidence to keep

Your lesson record.

  • One rewritten capability claim
  • Three relevant failure modes
  • Named reviewer
REFLECT

Where would a fluent but wrong answer create the most damage in your work?

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