Even the people who build Claude don't trust it blindly. Anthropic runs nearly all of their data questions through AI. So they built a system to keep it honest. Then they published the whole thing for us to see. So I read it from top to bottom and pulled out the five tactics that work right inside of your regular Claude or ChatGPT chat. If you're new here, I'm Dylan. I run an AI consultancy. And no question comes up more often than this one, which is the answer looks right, but can I trust it? That's what this whole video is about. So let's get into it. So when interacting with AI, there are three primary ways that I can give you a wrong answer. I'll walk you through what they are here, but then I'll walk you through the five tactics of how we can fix these. So the first one is that the AI guessed what you meant. So it misinterpreted your words. This is probably one of the most common that I see my clients run into. The next two are in relation to when you're using something like Claude co-work or Codex on your desktop, a desktop agent. And this specific issue is when AI pulls old information. This is when you have a bunch of different files that are named differently, but maybe it's like V1, V2, V3, etc. And then the final one is when the AI looks in the wrong place. So maybe you open Claude co-work or Codex through a certain folder, and it has a bunch of subfolders in there, and it gets distracted by a certain subfolder when it's supposed to be looking at another. And these are the primary sources as to why AI gives you the wrong answers over time. Also, as a quick side note, if you would like to read this blog post yourself, this is the post that I was referring to that Anthropic released. And you can read through this to see exactly how they're improving the accuracy of AI back, especially in relation to it retrieving data. Now let's jump into the five tactics that I pulled out of here. We can break our five tactics into three phases. So the first phase is prevention. So this is before you ever interact with AI at all. And again, I'll walk you through all these five tactics in more detail, but I just want to categorize these so you know where they sit. So the first one is prevention. So that's going to be being more specific with your words. And also using one source of truth when you have multiple versions. The The one is checking. So this is when anytime AI extracts information from a document for you, you always want it to provide proof so you can check it, and that's going to be our receipt. And then finally is protection. So, these are for the high-stakes tasks. Either it's something that has a lot of legal liability, financial liability, or brand reputation, or it could be something that you're trying to completely automate with AI. Both of which have different tactics of how we approach them. One is getting a second opinion from a different AI, or having AI test on known answers to see its performance. So, those are the phases: prevention, checking, and protecting. Quick pause in your regular programming. This video is brought to you by me, as always. Two quick things. First off, below is a 30-day AI Insight series, completely free. You'll get 30 insights in your inbox of how you can apply AI to your business and your work. The second thing is if you'd like to work with me, below are some offerings to see if there's a good fit between the two of us. Now, let's get back to the video. We'll start with the first tactic. This is around the prevention phase. And again, this is one of the most common issues I see my clients run into when they get wrong answers from AI, and it's because they gave it vague terminology when they were asking it to do something for them. Here's a prime example. When you ask AI, "Show me our top customers." Now, top is tricky here. How do we define top? We could define it in different ways. We could top could be by spend, it could be by recency, it could be by number of orders, or their brand. Now, when the AI interprets top, it may pick the wrong category. It picks it and then gives you an answer and it's wrong. So, the way that we can avoid this is when you use terminology that actually matters for the AI to decide, we need to be specific on what that means to us. So, this is the first part of tactic one. So, instead of it trying to determine what it is, if it's spend, recency, etc., we need to be specific. So, here in this case, we're saying top is our highest revenue clients in the last 12 months. So, this is the first part of tactic one, and that's ensuring that when we prompt AI, we're specific on the words that we're using and what it means. Now, you might not necessarily always know when to actually specify a certain word. So, we can have AI assist us in this process as well. So, here's a prompt that I recommend you copying and pasting and putting into your instructions or a skill for a task that's related to AI extracting information, and you've seen it commonly get