In his World View, Vinay Chaudhri proposes using an expert interview — a ‘Sunstein test’ — to gauge an AI model’s true level of understanding (see Nature 646, 1027; 2025). This is a good way to check technical proficiency, but risks anointing a select group of elites as the arbiters of an AI tool’s ‘trustworthiness’. This would inadvertently reinforce power structures critiqued by Cathy O’Neil in her book review, which highlights that the objectives of AI systems reflect the goals of the select few people who build and control them (see Nature 646, 1048–1049; 2025).
Nature 647, 592 (2025)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-03783-1
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