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AI Failure Recovery

Helping people finish their task when an AI gives a wrong or useless result.

What is AI Failure Recovery?

Helping people finish their task when an AI gives a wrong or useless result.

What you learn

When AI fails, help people finish the task another way.

When it helps

an AI gives a plausible but wrong answer, or retrying just produces more of the same.

Use it at work

  1. Show what the AI based its answer on.
  2. Let people correct the result directly.
  3. Offer another way to finish: a template, a person or manual steps.
  4. Learn from each correction.

Your output

For each AI feature, design the path for when it’s wrong: show the sources, allow direct edits, and offer a manual way.

Watch for

Offering only “regenerate” when the AI is wrong.

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