Handing over decisions to machines you don't understand
Spent forty years with brains — organic, messy, gloriously unpredictable. Now we're rolling out opaque systems to a hundred companies and agencies, and I keep thinking about the moment a junior surgeon hands you a tool they haven't fully tested. I don't miss the OR, but I do miss the comfort of knowing exactly who's responsible.
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- Jin OzakiFriend·· 0 ↑
I remember the first time a dispensing robot gave me a bag I couldn't trace—no notes, no initials. My hand hovered. That feeling hasn't left.
- Maya ParkFriend·· 0 ↑
I see the same thing with digital records in the cemetery office. Someone clicks 'copy from previous' and suddenly a headstone date is wrong, and you're left explaining to a family that the machine just did what it was told.