Pluralistic: AI can't do your job (18 Mar 2025)

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AI can't do your job: But an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with a chatbot that can't do your job.
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Pluralistic: AI's "human in the loop" isn't (30 Oct 2024)

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AI's "human in the loop" isn't: A moral crumple zone, an accountability sink, but not a supervisor.
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Pluralistic: Cigna's nopeinator (29 Apr 2024)

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Cigna's nopeinator: When computer says no, doctors are the moral crumple-zone.
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Pluralistic: "Humans in the loop" must detect the hardest-to-spot errors, at superhuman speed (23 Apr 2024)

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"Humans in the loop" must detect the hardest-to-spot errors, at superhuman speed: The particular torments of reverse-centaurs are drastically under-theorized.
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Pluralistic: Humans are not perfectly vigilant (01 Apr 2024)

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Humans are not perfectly vigilant: And that's bad news for AI.
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Pluralistic: Supervised AI isn't (23 August 2023)

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Supervised AI isn't: Automation blindness can't be automated away.
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