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HUMHUM-003 — Human-AI Collaboration Design Flaws

Public Chatbot Hallucination Producing Factually Incorrect Outputs

4/5Sector: OtherGeography: GlobalStage: OperateIngested: —

Executive Summary

A deployed public chatbot generated outputs contradicting verified facts and authoritative sources, a pattern known as hallucination. Organisations face reputational, legal, and public trust consequences when AI-produced misinformation reaches users at scale.

Domain

Human Factors

Blindspots in change management, skills, human-AI collaboration, trust, workforce, and culture.

Source

MIT AI Risk Repository — Emerging Risks and Mitigations for Public Chatbots: LILAC v1 (Stanley2024) ↗

https://airisk.mit.edu/

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