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The Autopsy

Your AI said it’s done. Let’s perform the autopsy.

Paste a pull-request diff, a “task complete” message, or a changelog. We return a coroner’s checklist: truly done, or cause of death.

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Published autopsies

Clinical forensics of public AI failures — which verification layer was missing, and what should have caught it. Conservative and well-sourced.

Autopsy #001

The chatbot that invented a refund policy

In a widely reported 2024 case, an airline’s support chatbot told a customer about a bereavement-fare refund policy that did not exist. A tribunal held the airline responsible for its AI’s statement. The output was confident, fluent, and completed — and wrong.

Missing layer: output verification against an authoritative policy source before the answer reached the customer.

Would have caught it: a VerifyAPI gate checking the claim against the published policy, recording pass/fail.

Lesson: “the AI said it” is not a defense. Completed is not correct.

Summary of a publicly reported incident; see primary reporting for full detail.