We Are Automating Judgment We Never Wrote Down
The hardest part of automating expert work is that the expertise was never written anywhere. When we hand that judgment to a model, we risk losing the very thing that made it good.
Topic
society
6 posts
Raising the Floor
The most quietly profound thing AI does is raise the minimum quality of work that an ordinary person or a small organization can produce. That floor matters more than the ceiling almost everyone is arguing about.
The Return of the Generalist
For thirty years the advice was to specialize. AI is quietly reversing that. The person who can do a little of everything competently is becoming more valuable than the person who does one thing perfectly.
What Happens to the Junior Job
AI is best at exactly the work we used to give beginners. That is convenient in the short term and a serious problem in the long one, because the junior job was never really about the work. It was how we made seniors.
Building Trust Into the Machine
AI will integrate into society at the speed people are willing to trust it, not the speed the technology advances. The good news is that trust is something you can engineer, and the companies that do it will be the ones that last.
The Cost of Letting a Model Decide
When a model makes a decision that affects a real person, someone is accountable for it. Too many companies are deploying systems that decide without ever answering the question of who that someone is.
