The trick to getting kids to stop trusting AI: Ask it to draw a map of the world

Educators in Charleston, South Carolina, are using a simple AI failure demo to curb students’ overreliance on chatbots before the new school year. At a high school auditorium, instructor Amanda Bickerstaff of AI for Education prompted an AI tool to “create a map of the world.” The projected result contained obvious errors and misspellings—such as “Mali” written as “Mail,” “Egypt” labeled “Sopth,” and Libya replaced by “Africa”—followed by other nonsensical country entries. The exercise is meant to help students see how generative AI can “hallucinate.” The article notes that AI literacy is increasingly emphasized, with multiple states issuing guidance and districts developing their own rules to balance experimentation and safeguards.