Dr Sam Illingworth
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Catch an AI Making Things Up

30 min
Sep 2, 2026 3:00 PM

What you'll learn

Spot a fabrication before you act on it.

We watch AI invent a fact or a citation, live. You leave able to tell a confident answer from a correct one.

Fact-check any AI answer in two prompts.

Two prompts that make an AI show its sources and own its uncertainty, so you catch the guesswork before it is too late.

Know when to trust AI and when to check.

You leave with the judgement underneath it all: when to use AI, when to verify, and when to leave it alone.

Why this topic matters

AI now drafts the emails, reports and research at work, and it states a wrong fact as confidently as a right one. Most advice teaches you to prompt faster. Almost none teaches you to check what comes back. That check is critical AI literacy: the difference between a tool that saves time and one that costs you a mistake. You leave with two prompts you can use today, and the skill worth building.

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Dr Sam Illingworth

Dr Sam Illingworth

Full Professor of Critical AI Literacy

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