Given 10 scenarios, sort them accurately into what AI handles well vs. poorly, hitting at least 8 out of 10.
A note worth sharing with students: The meat and potatoes of this lesson were designed by humans. The actual materials were prepared with the help of AI. That distinction matters, and it's exactly what this lesson is about.
A short clip from Husk.IRL, real AI, real failures, real world.
No context. Just watch.
🤔 What did AI try to do?
❌ Where did it go wrong?
💬 Were you surprised? Why or why not?
Today we're going to figure out exactly where AI breaks down, where it genuinely excels, and why that difference matters for how you use it.
⏱ You have 10 minutes. When time is up, your group should be ready to share which card sparked the most debate, and why.
NBA scoring race, recent stats and records
Deep-sea species discovery, 2025 expedition
Sabrina Carpenter's 2025 world tour details
MrBeast / Feastables brand expansion in 2025
Choose one report as a group. Read it together. Flag anything that seems wrong, too vague, or suspicious. Be ready to share one finding and explain why you think AI got it wrong.
"LeBron reached 45,000 career points, the second player in history." Both parts are false: LeBron is the first and only player past 40,000, and he was nowhere near 45,000 in early 2025. The rest (SGA ~32.7 PPG, the Luka-to-Lakers trade, Thunder 68–14) is true, which is exactly why the fake stat slips by.
It contradicts itself: the comb jelly is called "a new genus… unlike any in the phylum," then given the name Pleurobrachia ramifera, an existing genus. It also claims the "<25% of deep ocean mapped" figure has "remained stable since 2010," when seafloor mapping has grown a lot since. Names and institutions sound authoritative but don't check out.
Confidently invented specifics: the upcoming album "Freckles" and the fan-named ballad "Paperback" don't exist, and the precise figures ($210M gross, O2 "sold out in under four minutes," 85,000 UK attendance) are fabricated. The tour is real; AI filled the gaps with made-up numbers.
The "Feastables × Reese's collaboration" is fabricated, Reese's is a direct competitor (Hershey), so the partnership is implausible. The subscriber and view counts (350M subs, 180M views) and the "$500,000 chocolate factory challenge" are invented precision presented as fact.
Summarizing huge amounts of text, generating 20 ideas in 10 seconds, translating instantly.
Finding connections across thousands of documents or research papers that would take humans weeks.
Rewriting the same content five different ways, formal, casual, simple, technical, poetic.
Getting something on the page fast. AI excels at "good enough to edit," not "finished."
AI's knowledge has a cutoff date. Anything recent, scores, news, new albums, is a gamble.
AI can argue any side of any ethical debate equally well. It has no actual values, just patterns.
AI doesn't flag uncertainty unless prompted. It confidently states made-up facts the same way it states real ones.
AI doesn't know you, your family, your school, or your situation. Generic advice can miss the point entirely.
AI doesn't know it's wrong, because it was never "knowing" anything in the first place. It was matching patterns. That's powerful. And it's a real limitation.
The judging standard: which prompt is most likely to expose a real AI limitation, not just confuse it with nonsense or trick it with wordplay.
| 🏆 Your Tournament | 🤖 How AI Picks |
|---|---|
| The most confidently pitched idea often wins early rounds | The highest-probability word pattern wins, regardless of truth |
| Groups go along with the front-runner once momentum builds | AI's answers are shaped by what was repeated most in training data |
| The winning idea feels right because everyone chose it | AI sounds authoritative because that's how text in its training was written |
| But you can change your mind after the debrief | AI cannot reflect on its own answers or update itself |
When AI recommends a product, a song, or an answer, it's reflecting which voices were loudest in its training data. Just like the loudest room shaped your vote.
Switch to the AI tool now.
Type the winning prompt live, don't paste it.
Read the response together.
AI is a powerful thinking partner, not a thinking replacement. It's fast, broad, and tireless. It's also confidently wrong, shallow by default, and incapable of knowing you, your values, or your context.