Thomas Dietterich: map what LLMs can assess reliably, design UX for the rest
JessicaHullman · x · 2026-11-09
Renowned computer scientist Thomas Dietterich replied to Jessica Hullman with a research agenda: systematically study which tasks LLMs can assess accurately and which still require human judgment — centralize the former and design good UX around the latter. This divide-and-conquer framing underpins current human-AI collaborative assessment research.
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