"Documents Aren't Knowledge": preserving reasoning, provenance and uncertainty, not just outputs
jteevan · x · 2026-10-14
Jared Teevan (Microsoft Chief Scientist) continues his "7 Predictions" thread on what work becomes when knowledge replaces documents.
- "Documents Aren't Knowledge" asks what becomes possible when we preserve not just the output of thought but its reasoning, provenance, uncertainty, and evaluation
- The companion prediction "Caching Thought" imagines AI learning to ask good questions by seeing which ones lead to thinking that proves useful later
- The core idea: move beyond legacy proxies like documents so intermediate thought becomes reusable
Related event: Microsoft's Chief Scientist: Documents Aren't Knowledge(2 posts)→
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