{"id":257,"date":"2026-09-04T10:21:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T10:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wackycoder.com\/?p=257"},"modified":"2026-09-04T10:21:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T10:21:26","slug":"senior-ai-lesson-39-when-ai-goes-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wackycoder.com\/?p=257","title":{"rendered":"Senior AI Lesson 39: When AI Goes Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WackyCoder Senior AI Lesson 39<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>AI systems can fail because of poor data, adversarial inputs, bad configuration, overconfidence, weak testing, or human overreliance. This lesson focuses on understanding failure rather than repeating dramatic claims without verification.<\/p>\n<h2>Class activity<\/h2>\n<p>Choose a reported AI failure. Ask what went wrong, which facts are verified, what safeguards were missing, and how the problem could have been prevented.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key takeaway:<\/strong> AI is powerful but not infallible. Verify important claims and keep meaningful human oversight.<\/p>\n<p><em>Recovered from the original WackyCoder Senior AI Lesson 39 archive.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Study why AI systems fail and how verification, testing, oversight, and safer deployment reduce risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai-for-seniors","category-senior-ai-lessons","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wackycoder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wackycoder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wackycoder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wackycoder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wackycoder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wackycoder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258,"href":"https:\/\/wackycoder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wackycoder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wackycoder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wackycoder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}