What actually goes wrong.
FABRICATED REFERENCES
Citations, cases, studies and standards that do not exist.
The most common serious failure, across every profession.
CONFIDENTIALITY BREACHES
Client or patient material sent to services nobody assessed.
UNVERIFIED FIGURES
Calculations, doses, measurements and market data accepted without checking.
JURISDICTIONAL ERRORS
Advice or standards from the wrong country, stated confidently.
Particularly relevant for Nigerian practitioners, where general models are weakest.
AUTOMATION BIAS
Accepting a suggestion because a system produced it.
FLATTENED UNCERTAINTY
Professional hedging removed, so a qualified opinion becomes a definite statement.
OMISSION
Generated documents that read complete while missing something necessary.
SKILL EROSION
Practitioners who stop reasoning independently.
WHAT PREVENTS ALL OF THESE
Verifying in proportion to consequence, and reasoning independently before consulting.
THE PATTERN
Every failure above involves accepting output without checking it.
