Week 1 · Day 4 — The Hand

THE #HOWNOTTOUSEAI CHALLENGE

WEEK 1 · THE SOVEREIGN LENS — Clear the filter you never chose.

You’ve heard it, seen it and tested it. Today you build with it, and find out what it does to your hands. There are two ways to make an AI system behave, and the difference between them is the difference between a cage and an upbringing.

Today’s session:

• One real dilemma, selected from the 52-item AI Problems Index.

• A factory-setting slider that lets you dial up agreeableness and false confidence by hand, and watch what that does to the answer.

• A 19-prompt sequence where you steer almost nothing — the same problem, approached by not driving.

• The comparison between the two, which is the actual assignment.

You walk out with a cold, unprimed baseline — proof of what your authorship looks like before the algorithm takes the wheel.