Frontier AI Still Lacks 'Heresy': Breakthroughs Come from Defying Consensus
JeremyNguyenPhD · x · 2026-11-11
Jeremy Nguyen (PhD) observes that one human advantage frontier AI models still mostly lack is heresy: many breakthroughs in human progress came from someone saying something everyone in society knew to be wrong. Models tend to align with consensus, while real breakthroughs start by challenging it.
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