There are some cases where transcripts can get long and complex enough that model assistance is really useful for quickly and easily understanding them and finding issues, but not because the model is doing something that is fundamentally beyond our ability to oversee, just because it’s doing a lot of stuff.
The David Deutsch-inspired voice in me posits that this will always be the problem. There’s nothing that an AI could think or think about that humans couldn’t understand in principle, and so all the problems of overseeing something smarter than us are ultimately problems of the AI doing a lot of cognitive that takes more effort and time for the humans to follow.
Not that this makes the problem less scary, for being just a matter of massive quantitative differences, rather than a qualitative difference.
The David Deutsch-inspired voice in me posits that this will always be the problem. There’s nothing that an AI could think or think about that humans couldn’t understand in principle, and so all the problems of overseeing something smarter than us are ultimately problems of the AI doing a lot of cognitive that takes more effort and time for the humans to follow.
Not that this makes the problem less scary, for being just a matter of massive quantitative differences, rather than a qualitative difference.