Generative AI at Work / Unit 1 GAI 008 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Reasons That Look Right
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The idea
Generated answers can arrive with confabulated logic or citations: reasoning steps and sources that look like justification but do not support the answer.
In practice
A model lays out three tidy steps to a wrong conclusion, and cites a report that was never published.
Where people slip
A visible chain of reasoning is not proof; NIST notes that such explanations can deepen misplaced trust.
Your place on the trail
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Builds on
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