Why AI reasoning fails before the output Executive

Most AI failures don't start at the end. They start in the middle — quietly, compounding step by step until the model delivers a confident, polished, completely wrong answer. In this episode, we break down upstream hallucination drift: the hidden reasoning failure mode that's undermining enterprise AI in healthcare, finance, compliance, and beyond. We walk through the research — why multi-step reasoning degrades, why self-correction doesn't work, why your model's confidence means nothing — and what executives and AI teams can actually do about it. If you're deploying AI in high-stakes decisions, this is the episode to share with your team.