AI’s bigger risk is losing control over hidden decisions, not hallucinations
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-07-28
The author argues that AI’s biggest risk is not hallucinations, but losing control over the task because prompts are inherently ambiguous.
- If you do the work manually, you must resolve ambiguities yourself.
- When relying on AI, it is easy to let the system make those hidden decisions without noticing.
- The core danger is delegation without understanding which choices were made along the way.
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