AI Hallucinations Might Be More Human Than We’d Like to Admit

AI hallucinations are well reported. They’re also one of the biggest reasons people hesitate to trust or adopt these systems. That hesitation makes sense. But I’ve been thinking about something that doesn’t get discussed as much: What if AI hallucinations aren’t some weird machine failure… What if they’re actually a reflection of how humans already think? At a technical level, hallucinations happen because AI fills gaps. When it doesn’t “know,” it predicts. It generates the most plausible next piece of information based on patterns it has seen before. Sometimes that works.