Day 12: Ethics and Illusions: Why Responsible AI Begins with Truth

The AI That Lies — Understanding Hallucinations in Large Language Models When AI Misleads with Confidence In 2023, an AI chatbot told a journalist that a famous CEO had died. The article it cited didn’t exist. The event didn’t happen. And the AI wasn’t apologetic—it insisted the information was factual. This wasn’t malicious—it was a textbook case of hallucination. As AI systems grow more convincing, we face a new kind of ethical dilemma: tools that sound right but aren’t. What happens when machines designed to help start confidently making things up? This post explores two critical themes in modern AI: the ethical foundations behind responsible AI design, and the strange, slippery phenomenon of hallucinations in large language models (LLMs). If we want to build AI we can trust, we need to understand both. Ethics in AI: Why It’s Not Just About Code AI ethics deals with how we ensure artificial intelligence benefits society without harming individuals, groups, or commun...