{"id":701,"date":"2026-03-22T22:52:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T22:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cybersecuritysanity.com\/?p=701"},"modified":"2026-04-28T23:44:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T23:44:24","slug":"the-problem-of-false-expertise-in-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cybersecuritysanity.com\/?p=701","title":{"rendered":"The Problem of False Expertise in AI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There is something worse than ignorance, and that is false expertise. This happens in all fiends, but it&#8217;s worse in fields that are poorly understood and those which are hot and popular in the press.  Of course, nothing is hotter than AI and few things are more poorly understood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are quite a few people out there calling themselves experts. There are legitimately not that many people out there who understand AI, and even fewer of them are known for public speaking.  Yuval Noah Harari is an example of this.  He&#8217;s an historian and best selling author.<br><br>But does that mean he knows AI?   No.  No, it does noit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Yuval Noah Harari And False AI Expertise\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7mwQqK79wcQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is something worse than ignorance, and that is false expertise. This happens in all fiends, but it&#8217;s worse in fields that are poorly understood and those which are hot and popular in the press. Of course, nothing is hotter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cybersecuritysanity.com\/?p=701\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,62,189],"tags":[116,177,179,178,138,176,175],"class_list":["post-701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-bad-science","category-history","tag-ai","tag-davos","tag-expert","tag-false-expterise","tag-ml","tag-wef","tag-yuval-noah-harari"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecuritysanity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecuritysanity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecuritysanity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecuritysanity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecuritysanity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecuritysanity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":703,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecuritysanity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions\/703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecuritysanity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecuritysanity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecuritysanity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}