Respectfully, try this concept on for size. AI has a hard time telling cows apart from traffic lights under the wrong lighting conditions. So we have AI looki

Respectfully, try this concept on for size. AI has a hard time telling cows apart from traffic lights under the wrong lighting conditions. So we have AI looking at a data set, and it notices this anolmalous, shadowy outline of an interesting shape in the data. This AI is the same class of software that can be duped into misclassifying a face for a celebrity with some abstract, bold halloween makeup. So, do we trust that everything interesting the AI picks up on is assuredly a new finding? How do we know that the AI hasn’t mistaken a potential pathway for mutant future descendants as ancestral artifacts? Maybe it has noticed something that can’t happen yet, which could be a possible future reproductive vector? Or, maybe it really is an ancestral artefact, but of something that never happened. Just a weird coicidence of justified end-of-line characters all lining up perfectly, when you drop certain rows.