THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS. I’M SHOCKED. SHOCKED!

SCHRÖDINGER’s HYPOTHETICAL DEMANDS HIS CAT USES AI

Abstract

“This is a time, Gentlemen, when … the Sciences, in the largest sense of the word, are looked upon with anxiety ..”¹

That’s arguably truer now than 170 years ago.  To gain and keep the confidence of Joe and Josephine Public, the students we turn into scientists must learn to critically assess the information available to them.  T’was ever so.  But this critical ability and curiosity as to the source and quality of information has become even more important in our current age of uncurated and untested information. Why should we bother with scientists when AI can give us the answer?

In this presentation we discuss an example in which not only is AI slavishly incurious, merely mouthing the platitudes, pouring lemming-like across the internet, but, in an Orwellian twist, rewrites history in a way that supports the AI interpretation.

What to do?