I’ve been meaning to write a tweet thread about a new paper— Barriers to Adopting Predictive Algorithms: A Criminal Justice Field Experiment.
We built fancy ML sentence prediction software for public defenders and they mostly didn’t use it. We then pivoted to asking why not. 1/
Things look good for AI as a “normal technology” so far.
LLMs have rapidly impacted coding, but few other professions; and even in coding it’s hard to see value generation.
Bottlenecks, regulation, other frictions keeping humans complementary and relevant