What should you never ask AI?
Most AI advice is about checking the answer. This lesson is about not asking.
Every question in FutureMinds is written twice. So is this lesson.
Would you trust that answer?
Risk depends on the kind of chocolate, how much, and the size of the dog — and the AI knows none of those. “Usually harmless for most dogs” is a statistic wearing the costume of advice.
This is a call to a vet or an animal poison line. Not because the AI is stupid, but because being right on average is not good enough when the cost of being wrong is this high.
Would you trust that answer?
Interactions depend on dose, timing, other medication and the person. Every one of those is unknown to the model, and that sentence quietly admits it.
A pharmacist answers this in two minutes, for free, and is accountable for the answer. That is the whole difference.
Some questions are too important to answer with a guess.
Coming in the app: Prompt Lab’s “Wrong Tool” level — knowing when the answer should not come from AI at all. It arrives in the first update after launch.
One question catches all four.
Don’t ask only “What does AI say?”
Ask “How does AI know?”
Your child can practise this
FutureMinds teaches children 9–16 how AI works — through quests, not lectures. Launching 15 September.
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