It was 9pm. Rafi's mother called from the kitchen, "Ask Google whether it will rain tomorrow." Rafi asked his phone, "What will tomorrow's weather be like?" A clear answer came back instantly. Surprised, his mother said, "The phone now seems to understand almost like a human!"

The phone that understood the question and replied was running on artificial intelligence, or AI. In simple terms, AI is a technology that analyzes billions of pieces of data, finds patterns within them, and uses those patterns to predict what the right answer might be. It is important to remember that AI does not actually think the way humans do — it only calculates probabilities from a huge number of examples.

Take the keyboard on your phone suggesting the next word, or YouTube automatically recommending videos you might like — both are small everyday examples of AI that we use all the time without noticing.

That is precisely where the biggest risk lies. AI sometimes delivers wrong information with complete confidence — a phenomenon called hallucination — and many people accept it without checking. Experts therefore always advise treating an AI answer not as the final truth but as an initial idea, and making the final judgment only after verifying it yourself.