Hi Kariema, I appreciated the visual examples and hyperlinked cases of “human failure”. Stories to share around a dinner table!
I agree in principal that individuals have a responsibility to maintain oversight. However, I think the characterisation of “human failure” as an individual’s problem (i.e. someone “not bothering to check”) and the proposed solution of “us standing guard” is only a piece of a wider puzzle that necessitates identifying and addressing the complexity of situational/ structural factors (see fundamental attribution error).
In each of the example mentioned, I’d be curious to know why the human failed? Moral imperative aside, what incentivised them to “fail” at the time? What factors can be introduced (on individual and structural levels) to incentivise the “human success” you so passionately advocate for?
To be thorough, I did point out the mistake in the Africa image to the page on LinkedIn that published it, and asked them to tell me which AI they’d used and the prompt. They didn’t respond.
My CELTA tutor told me once that many trainees would submit written assignments with grammatical and structural errors, and these are always underlined in the word doc in red, no less.
It would be great to really know why someone skips checking AI outputs, given that it’s prone to hallucinations. They might be the same ones who submitted to my tutor :)
Until then, we just need to be watchful and call out the mistakes. Maybe someone will pay more attention because of it.
Hi Kariema, I appreciated the visual examples and hyperlinked cases of “human failure”. Stories to share around a dinner table!
I agree in principal that individuals have a responsibility to maintain oversight. However, I think the characterisation of “human failure” as an individual’s problem (i.e. someone “not bothering to check”) and the proposed solution of “us standing guard” is only a piece of a wider puzzle that necessitates identifying and addressing the complexity of situational/ structural factors (see fundamental attribution error).
In each of the example mentioned, I’d be curious to know why the human failed? Moral imperative aside, what incentivised them to “fail” at the time? What factors can be introduced (on individual and structural levels) to incentivise the “human success” you so passionately advocate for?
Hey, Moneer, great to hear your views on this
To be thorough, I did point out the mistake in the Africa image to the page on LinkedIn that published it, and asked them to tell me which AI they’d used and the prompt. They didn’t respond.
My CELTA tutor told me once that many trainees would submit written assignments with grammatical and structural errors, and these are always underlined in the word doc in red, no less.
It would be great to really know why someone skips checking AI outputs, given that it’s prone to hallucinations. They might be the same ones who submitted to my tutor :)
Until then, we just need to be watchful and call out the mistakes. Maybe someone will pay more attention because of it.