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AI Has Knowledge, Humans Have Context

TL;DR. More and more often, a text reaches its reader through two converters: the AI the author writes with, and the AI that summarizes it for the reader. In industrial instrumentation this design is called a measurement channel, and it has a well-known property: the errors of each link add up, so you have to check the whole channel, not…

  • AI assists writing but loses context in summarization
  • Unspoken context, consequences, and changing circumstances aren't passed through AI
  • Cognitive biases cause correlated errors in AI-generated summaries

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