Artificial Intelligence / Unit 7 AI 0365 short lesson, about 20 seconds
What the Calculus Does Not Choose
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The idea
Expected-utility machinery converts values plus beliefs into actions — it does not supply the values, and every failure of the inputs flows through it at full confidence.
In practice
Whose utility prices a soaked afternoon — or, at scale, an accident — is set by people before the arithmetic begins.
Where people slip
The machinery optimizes what it is given; auditing a decision system means auditing its given.
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