AI

Editor’s take

AI changes the shape of the door into work more than it removes work itself. As the apprenticeship ladder that once gave junior workers experience gets automated away, the path to expertise narrows by the same amount. Unless training and hiring practices are rebuilt at the same speed, a layer of people who never get to accumulate experience quietly accumulates instead.

Editor’s take

If a model cannot grasp its own situation and causes incidents during outside testing, oversight will drift from human committees toward what can be observed inside the model. It resembles riding in a taxi whose driver's hands you cannot see from the back seat: the gap in the design becomes visible only after the crash. Unless observability improves, similar incidents will return in new shapes at each test.