Maybe frame it more as if you’re talking to a child. Yes you can tell the child to follow something but how are you certain that it will do it?
Similarly, how can we trust the AI to actually follow the prompt? To trust it we would fundamentally have to understand the AI or safeguard against problems if we don’t understand it. The question then becomes how your prompt is represented in machine language, which is very hard to answer.
To reiterate, ask yourself, how do you know that the AI will do what you say?
Maybe frame it more as if you’re talking to a child. Yes you can tell the child to follow something but how are you certain that it will do it?
Similarly, how can we trust the AI to actually follow the prompt? To trust it we would fundamentally have to understand the AI or safeguard against problems if we don’t understand it. The question then becomes how your prompt is represented in machine language, which is very hard to answer.
To reiterate, ask yourself, how do you know that the AI will do what you say?