Access is not the bottleneck: taste and judgment drive AI outcomes
Yuchenj_UW · x · 2026-08-31
Despite universal access to AI, outcomes vary wildly among users. The real bottleneck is no longer access to knowledge, but rather taste, judgment, and the ability to ask the right questions.
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