Walter Quattrociocchi | On Fluency and Judgment in AI, and the Fragility of Human Trust | Episode #86
In this episode, Lasse Rindom speaks with Walter Quattrociocchi, complexity scientist and professor of computer science, about what really happens when language becomes automated and answers arrive without the effort of thinking.
Their conversation circles around:
Why large language models simulate judgment rather than possess it, and why benchmarks miss the point
The concept of "Epistemia" - when fluent wording replaces verification and we feel we know without having evaluated
How AI increases content production while quietly eroding trust in content itself
Reliability, error, and the danger…
The skinny
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