📐 Garden concept
Silent Failure as Critical Failure Mode
Type of system failure that produces no visible errors, alerts, or interruptions, but delivers incorrect results — such as an AI model hallucinating data withou
Definition
Type of system failure that produces no visible errors, alerts, or interruptions, but delivers incorrect results — such as an AI model hallucinating data without flagging it, or a sensor reporting values within range but erroneous, without any automated mechanism detecting it.