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Trusting your own judgement on 'AI' is a risk

Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

He described it as a process where the mechanics of cognitive optimisation in the brain could be deceptively triggered into a semi-automatic sequence that bypassed your regular judgement – his very eighties metaphor was like that of a tape in your mind that went “click whirr” and played in response to specific stimuli. It’s like we had a new wonder drug on the market but we had no way of knowing if its risk dynamic is Thalidomide (brutal and horrible deformities), Paracetamol (low lethal overdose threshold), or Penicillin (systemic overuse destroys its effect). This is exactly the kind of psychological hazard – lot to gain, subjective experiences, observations free of the context of its impact on other parts of the organisation or society – that might as well be tailor-made to trick developers who are simultaneously overwhelmingly convinced of their own intelligence and completely unaware of their own biases and limitations.

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