Evidence receipt / evaluation
Published · transcript-backedBrendan Foody: evaluation
7 Jan 2026 Conversations with Tyler Brendan Foody on Teaching AI and the Future of Knowledge Work
“The reason is that there’s so much taste involved in legal responses that effectively getting all of the taste that Cass has into the model is going to be difficult.”
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- Brendan Foody
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- evaluation
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- 7 Jan 2026
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Let’s just take the body of knowledge alone. Forget about the long horizon. Just an on-the-spot test. Let’s say I’m Cass Sunstein. I know Cass. He has an incredibly impressive body of knowledge in many areas. When are we at the point where, basically, Cass cannot ask a question that the best models cannot answer? Wow, that’s an interesting question. I think it depends domain by domain, but in law, I think it’s going to be a long time. The reason is that there’s so much taste involved in legal responses that effectively getting all of the taste that Cass has into the model is going to be difficult. I do think we’ll very quickly get to the point where Cass has a really hard time finding a mistake the model makes, where he has to spend maybe a week just trying to probe it. How far away is that?…
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