Think of AI as an Eager Junior Intern (The Delegation Model) (AI Skill)

Overview

Users typically fall into two flawed extremes with AI:

1. The Oracle Fallacy: Treating the AI as an infallible genius and blindly trusting every hallucinated number and URL without review.
2. The Cynic Fallacy: Dismissing AI as useless because it made one factual error.

The Eager Junior Intern Mental Model frames the relationship accurately: imagine you have an exceptionally well-read, lightning-fast intern who has memorized all of Wikipedia and GitHub, but lacks real-world judgment, common sense, and accountability.

The Junior Intern Delegation Matrix