The Asymmetry of Scrutiny
The asymmetry of scrutiny
We treat the AI as more dangerous than the human clinician it assists — even though the AI is the only one of the two we can actually audit.
Every algorithm, every data path, every decision the machine makes can be logged, inspected, and held to account. The human mind beside it cannot. Yet we scrutinize the inspectable thing and trust the opaque one.
That asymmetry is the hidden architecture of medical risk — and it’s the question behind the Triangle of Trust. The full argument is in the Trajectory Engineering papers.
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