AI Should Challenge, Not Obey
Human-Computer Interaction
2025-06-23 v2
Authors:
Advait Sarkar
Abstract
Let's transform our robot secretaries into Socratic gadflies.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2411.02263,
title = {AI Should Challenge, Not Obey},
author = {Advait Sarkar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.02263},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
Advait Sarkar. 2024. AI Should Challenge, Not Obey. Commun. ACM 67, 10 (October 2024), 18-21. https://doi.org/10.1145/3649404
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