Opinion: The AI and Expertise Discussion Is Misguided
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AI and Expertise: Why Public Debate Misses the Real Problem
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News18•21-03-2026, 15:16
AI and Expertise: Why Public Debate Misses the Real Problem
•The public debate on AI focuses on machines surpassing human judgment, a question decades from resolution.
•AI systems are not replacing expertise but dissolving the social distance that makes expertise legible, creating a perception problem.
•True expertise involves pattern-recognition heuristics gained through years of experience and real consequences, not just information.
•Large language models learn the linguistic surface of expertise, optimizing for plausibility, which is not correctness.
•The real danger is plausible AI outputs accumulating, shifting behavior and eroding deference before errors are detected, leading to a judgment problem.
