AI made prediction free; judgment and owning the call stay expensive
professor_ajay · x · 2026-10-19
A viewpoint from Professor Ajay's CAIS talk (via Matt McGowan): AI has made prediction essentially free, but agency, judgment, and owning the call when you're wrong remain expensive and scarce. The failure mode is that we still grade people on the part that just became free, instead of the parts that still matter.
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