Google researcher: AI adoption stalls on certainty expectations — output error bounds instead
docmilanfar · x · 2026-09-22
Google researcher Milanfar argues that a barrier to AI adoption is the expectation of certainty, which demands zero margin of error — impossible in any practical scenario. Instead, he proposes designing systems that produce reliable knowledge: information that transparently includes its own error bounds.
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