Margaret Mitchell: Confidence Is Not Competence
mmitchell_ai · x · 2026-07-23
Margaret Mitchell, Chief Ethics Scientist at Hugging Face, shared insights from academic and engineering debates: no matter how angry or confident those arguing against you are, you should stick to what you know to be true.
She emphasized that confidence does not equal competence. Brazen confidence is often a signal that the person has an underlying knowledge issue.
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