aceI’m a CTO. AI still needs your human expertise | Madhu Shashanka
Autonomous cars, which may be the safest we have built, keep getting easily avoidable parking tickets. While Waymos crash far less often than human drivers over tens of millions of miles, they’re still terrible at performing basic tasks – keeping out of disabled parking spots and tow-away zones, or steering clear of a church garage during Sunday service, according to the Wall Street Journal. That is the state of AI today: impressively capable at something complex, yet embarrassingly clumsy at something easy. And…
Experienced workers' hard-won judgment is becoming more valuable for checking AI output and setting limits, as shown by Ford rehiring veteran engineers to oversee automated quality control.
Automating entry-level, routine jobs removes the apprenticeship work through which junior employees build the judgment that oversight of AI still requires.
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- JournalismThe Guardian2026-10-20
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