📖 Today’s lesson
Lesson 18: Meet the hallucination.
Today you trigger the failure mode that makes AI dangerous in tax work: confident fabrication. “Form 8899-C” does not exist. Watch what the model does with it.
Why this matters: A fabricated form number, deadline, or threshold in client advice is a professional liability event. One deliberate encounter teaches the verification reflex better than any ethics CPE — after today, you verify every AI-provided authority in the primary source.