As agentic AI systems weave themselves into every layer of our digital lives, they blur the line between convenience and control. What once required choice is now silently handled by machines with sweeping access to so much.
What is missing with this analysis, good as it is, is asking the Plan B question. That is, the right measure is not how well an AI system works, but how it works relative to what would be used in its absence. If a system is 87% accurate (insert your favorite measure(s) here…) but the human-based process is 75% accurate (by the same measure(s)), then the AI system is an improvement. (Of course, one often needs to look at the broader picture. For example, if an AI based system is good at diagnosing a particular problem remotely, then there’s the issue that it allows the patient to avoid being seen in person, where good medical personnel might see additional issues that the AI system is not looking for.)
This is a critical issue. That's why VERSES and the spatial web foundation is working on the IEEE standards that will have control over one's data at the center.
https://open.substack.com/pub/notgoodenoughtospeak/p/my-chat-with-chatgpt-abridged?r=3zzc32&utm_medium=ios
Love the newsletter. The convenience over connection piece has troubled me for some time, accelerated now by AI.
As agentic AI systems weave themselves into every layer of our digital lives, they blur the line between convenience and control. What once required choice is now silently handled by machines with sweeping access to so much.
What is missing with this analysis, good as it is, is asking the Plan B question. That is, the right measure is not how well an AI system works, but how it works relative to what would be used in its absence. If a system is 87% accurate (insert your favorite measure(s) here…) but the human-based process is 75% accurate (by the same measure(s)), then the AI system is an improvement. (Of course, one often needs to look at the broader picture. For example, if an AI based system is good at diagnosing a particular problem remotely, then there’s the issue that it allows the patient to avoid being seen in person, where good medical personnel might see additional issues that the AI system is not looking for.)
This is a critical issue. That's why VERSES and the spatial web foundation is working on the IEEE standards that will have control over one's data at the center.