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source_url: "https://hbr.org/2026/02/how-to-foster-psychological-safety-when-ai-erodes-trust-on-your-team"
source_title: "How to Foster Psychological Safety When AI Erodes Trust on Your Team"
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# Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well

**Publication (book).** *Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well*, authored by [[entity-amy-c-edmondson|Amy C. Edmondson]], details the science of failing well.

**Role in the source.** The article draws directly on this book to establish its central failure distinction: **[[concept-intelligent-ai-failures]]** (which should be *celebrated* as learning) versus **[[concept-basic-ai-failures]]** (which should be *prevented*). The book's typology of intelligent vs. basic/preventable failures is ported wholesale into AI practice inside the [[framework-ai-integration-principles|integration framework]] and instantiated in [[framework-3m-ai-rollout]].

**Canonical reference:** https://www.harpercollins.com/products/right-kind-of-wrong-amy-edmondson

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