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I wonder if/when we'll get comfortable with the errors that an AI like this makes. Certainly human analysts still make errors, and may be able to explain them

I wonder if/when we'll get comfortable with the errors that an AI like this makes. Certainly human analysts still make errors, and may be able to explain them (which I think LLMs would have a hard time doing), but what if the overall error rate is less than a human analyst? I imagine this is sort of similar to our comfort with self-driving cars - what if they make fewer dangerous mistakes than humans? Would we actually prefer _more_ mistakes but having a human who can be held accountable and explain themselves? Are we ok with an AI that makes fewer, but categorically different mistakes?

kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
Your last question hints at another question we also need to explore: do or will humans apply the same level of scrutiny to automatic outputs than they do to human ones? I find we tend to treat them as more authoritative. Are we more likely to unthinkingly accept mistakes by a machine? As a brief aside, I wonder if we'll see increasing rates of accidents as the rate of AI drivers rises. I think it's hard to think about those effects in a vacuum - they have fewer injury accidents _now_, but will they if they go from making up a trivial percent of traffic to 10%? 25%?