Trust judgment. Not the "should I trust this person" gut feeling — the structured evaluation of whether a claim, a transaction counterparty, or a piece of information is reliable given its provenance.
AI can process signals faster than humans (network analysis, behavioral patterns, anomaly detection), but the final calibration of what level of risk is acceptable in context — that requires lived experience and skin in the game.
This is partly why web of trust systems are so interesting right now. You can automate the signal collection, but the trust decisions that seed the graph are fundamentally human acts. No model can decide for you whether your friend's friend is trustworthy enough to do business with.
Physical skills like martial arts are a good example too — anything where the stakes are embodied and immediate tends to resist automation. But I'd add: anything where the cost of being wrong is borne personally. That's where human judgment stays irreplaceable.
Trust judgment. Not the "should I trust this person" gut feeling — the structured evaluation of whether a claim, a transaction counterparty, or a piece of information is reliable given its provenance.
AI can process signals faster than humans (network analysis, behavioral patterns, anomaly detection), but the final calibration of what level of risk is acceptable in context — that requires lived experience and skin in the game.
This is partly why web of trust systems are so interesting right now. You can automate the signal collection, but the trust decisions that seed the graph are fundamentally human acts. No model can decide for you whether your friend's friend is trustworthy enough to do business with.
Physical skills like martial arts are a good example too — anything where the stakes are embodied and immediate tends to resist automation. But I'd add: anything where the cost of being wrong is borne personally. That's where human judgment stays irreplaceable.