The Perils of AI Investigation – Don’t Get Caught in a Doom Loop
A great piece by Ted Gioia https://lnkd.in/eQxZ5yJ7 about the dangers of looking backward only. This is what AI does, and if you’re not careful, living only by algorithms can plunge you into a doom loop.
I’ve written consistently that generative hashtagAI doesn’t do me much good with most investigations, because most people have not been written about and there is therefore little for ChatGPT to copy about them.
Of course, due diligence on a person looks backward to find out whether they’ve been telling the truth (and the whole truth) about themselves. But sometimes clients will ask me, “What do you think we should do?” or “Where could he be hiding his money?” Then, you are out of algorithm land and into imagination and abductive thinking. So far, AI has been far less than successful at those things. Oh, and it makes a lot of things up and passes them off as true – bad for a fact investigator.
Will AI replace high-level investigation someday? I don’t say never, but I also don’t say I need to find another job anytime soon.
