or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the autocompleteThere is a moment, somewhere between asking a chat bot to explain quantum entanglement and watching it confidently insist that your son can be your personal elementary school teacher, when a small voice in your head whispers a heretical question. What if the most articulate thing in the room is not actually thinking? This is the conundrum Michael Wooldridge laid out in his Faraday Prize Lecture at the Royal Society. We were promised remorselessly logical machines, the cold steel philosophers of science fiction. We got something stranger. Eloquent, charismatic, occasionally brilliant, frequently bonkers, and entirely incapable of telling you which of those modes it is currently operating in. The Confidence GameThe first thing you notice about modern LLM text production is its bedside manner. It does not stammer. It does not say "ummm". It does not preface a wrong answer with "I'm not totally sure, but maybe...". It just…
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