What AI is
Demonstrate transferable mastery: fraud detector
Transfer means applying the same questions to a new system while changing the evidence and safeguards to match its stakes.
1Learn the idea
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New case
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Fits
- Suggest reply
- Flag odd purchase
- Draft from bullets
Not by itself
- Spreadsheet formula
- Doorbell circuit
- “Smart” ad copy
Fits = smart tasks · Not AI by itself = fixed rules
The library’s payment provider offers a fraud detector that may delay suspicious card payments. Unlike a recommendation, an error can block a person’s transaction. Domain experts and provider evidence are required.
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Independent mastery task
Produce a one-page review:
- Map input, operation, output, and consequence.
- State what is known, inferred, and unknown.
- Ask for false-positive and false-negative results on representative transactions.
- Describe how a person learns of a delay and can challenge it.
- Name the accountable owner and stop condition.
- Compare a rules-only alternative.
- Recommend reject, limited pilot, or deploy—and state evidence that would reverse your choice.
Do not invent performance numbers. “I need provider evidence” is a competent answer.
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Corrective guidance
- If you wrote “the AI decides,” name the output and who acts on it.
- If you used only average accuracy, examine consequential error types and affected groups.
- If your safeguard is “human review,” state the reviewer’s evidence, time, and authority.
- If your recommendation cannot be reversed, add a monitoring trigger.
Related lessons
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Page assessment
Answer from memory. Completion is saved from this evidence, not from opening the next page.
Explain where the recommendation-system analogy helps and where it breaks.
All responses are required.