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The speaker says that expert-guided AI can produce impressive results in well-specified domains, creating a supervisor illusion while leaving some ambiguity.

Tim Scarfe · AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen · 8 Sept 2026

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“it's like flashing a light into the darkness and what you're doing is you're kind of making the the path of least resistance roughly correct and then it will do the correct thing so i guess i'm just saying that there's a bit of a supervisor illusion so when experts use it magical things happen in well-specified domains magical things happen but there's still a bit of a space of ambiguity but you know but this this gets to the next point which is like what do you think intelligence is right so the beauty of our collective intelligence”
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