By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/10/2026For programmers to apply machine learning to these domains, they need to collaborate with experts who *do* understand them, who furthermore expect to be paid for this work. 1261 26
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/10/2026The need for expert input into this kind of "AI" represents a significant increase in the wage-bill paid by the programmer's employer: it means they have to pay for programmers *and* experts. 1252 25
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/10/2026Even worse: this kind of "AI" can't be applied to systems we *don't understand*. We can observe far more causal relationships - in which A reliably causes B - in the universe than we can explain. There are lots of examples of us operationalizing these observations without understanding them. 1211 21
