"Hey Jeeves, may I ask you something?"
Jeeves looks like a trustworthy chap.
Or perhaps I'll try Google.
Nobody uses Yahoo anymore.
Way back when, if I wanted to know how to change a piston, what happened to Twin Pines Mall, or what was the correct HTML syntax for a TABLE, search engines helped me find answers.
We've taken a leap further.
Today, thanks to AI, both information and expert advice are on tap.
My doctor knows far more about medicine than I do. He can tell me about the intermittent pain under my right rib when I lean a certain way. Ask an AI the same question and the answer will sound remarkably like it came from my doctor. Only more thorough.
For most of my life, information was readily available while expertise remained scarce.
But...
A doctor has skin in the game.
AI doesn't.
It can be right.
It can be wrong.
But it bears no cost either way.
Expert advice has become cheap.
Accountability hasn't yet caught up.