Six AI Literacy Mysteries

The AI has answers. You have receipts.

Six visual mysteries that teach you how to check AI before it costs time, trust, privacy—or 200 goats. No typing, no account, no login. Each case takes a few minutes and works on a phone.

The six cases

• The Pepper Mystery
  The AI is 94% confident. It is also searching the wrong neighborhood.
  Teaches: Check provenance, assumptions, generated detail, freshness, and confidence
• The Hamster Is Apparently Everywhere
  The AI has found Beans 43 times. Beans remains missing.
  Teaches: Classification thresholds, false positives, and base rates
• Grandpa Is Not at the Lake
  Grandpa has left the building. Sort of.
  Teaches: Ambiguous language, OCR errors, and missing human context
• The Principal Did Not Cancel Pajama Day
  The principal said what? Allegedly.
  Teaches: Synthetic media, provenance, and independent verification
• Who Ordered 200 Goats?
  Good news: the fundraiser has livestock. Bad news: all of it.
  Teaches: Prompt injection, tool permissions, and human approval gates
• The HOA vs. the 12-Foot Skeleton
  The HOA has a suspect. The HOA is very sure. This has historically gone well.
  Teaches: Biased data, proxies, coverage gaps, and unequal consequences

Why these exist

Every case follows the same rhythm: see the AI's claim, inspect the evidence behind it, catch the hidden assumption, then make a choice that changes what happens next. They are the free, playable version of the thinking skills taught in AI workshops for teams at My AI Evolution.

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