"The failures are the curriculum"

AI equips the layperson to impersonate an expert, producing output that has all the hallmarks of expert judgement—except for the judgement itself. I have several family members in academia, so the phenomenon being discussed in this piece was already familiar to me, but Dr. Karamanis paints an evocative picture of the underlying structural problem. I see a lot of parallels in the tech industry, and I’m trying to quash any nascent tendencies toward this in my own life. Well-meaning workers are trying their best to be useful as they watch their colleagues fall away around them. They’re inheriting roles and responsibilities they may not be qualified for or equipped to do justice to. Thanks to the same AI that’s bedazzled their leaders, these folks can produce work…but not substantiate it. Unable to understand the model’s output enough to polish it into worthiness, they lean too much on the model’s expertise. Except models don’t have expertise, they have statistics. Statistics are…