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Producing an answer and knowing it is right are different jobs.
Almost Right examines what happens when AI makes generation cheap, fast and abundant while independent human verification remains scarce.
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THE VERIFICATION GAP
AI can create work faster than most people can independently check it.
The book follows that mismatch through software, medicine, law, education, cybersecurity, aviation, labor markets and AI itself. The argument is not that AI should stop. It is that the more capable the systems become, the more valuable independent judgment becomes.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Anthony C. Vila
Vila came to artificial intelligence as a user and builder rather than a computer scientist. That vantage point became the starting point for Almost Right: what happens when the machine can cross an expertise boundary faster than the person using it can learn to verify the result?
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