“Every different prompt and project and interaction can go wrong in a way that is hard to predict or plan for other than having an eternal vigilance that the supposed “intelligence” doesn’t do something catastrophically stupid, because LLMs have no thoughts, consciousness or ability to learn outside of pre and post-training.”
Our reading, the sentence that was checked:
Every LLM prompt, project and interaction can go wrong in ways that are hard to predict or plan for, short of constant vigilance against catastrophically stupid behaviour, because LLMs have no thoughts, consciousness or ability to learn outside pre-training and post-training.
Assessment: Can’t be checked Not checked against evidence
Where and when Ed Zitron wrote it
Where's Your Ed At, AI Doesn't Have ROI, paragraph 7.
- Said
- Source observed
- live page, full text, public
- Evidence
- Not checkedboth screens found it cannot be checked
- Assessment recorded
- assessment wyea-ai-doesnt-have-roi-683e97-a1
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What the claim commits to
- Kind
- Causal claim
- Deadline, as the speaker wrote it
- None stated. This site does not add one.
- Deadline state when assessed
- No horizon
- Deadline state on 2026-10-29
- No horizon (the release’s reference date)
Conditions
- hard to predict or plan for (qualifier, stated by the speaker)
- other than eternal vigilance (qualifier, stated by the speaker)
- every different prompt, project and interaction (scope, stated by the speaker)
From the speaker
- hard to predict or plan for
- other than eternal vigilance
- every different prompt, project and interaction
Our interpretation
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Current assessment
Not graded on evidence
Outcome: Can’t be checked
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Why it can’t be checked
Each screen gave its own reason:
- Too vague to test: informed readers would test it in different ways and reach different answers.
- Stated as a chance or a possibility, or at medium or low confidence.
- Evidence
- Not checked
- Deadline state when assessed
- No horizon
- Assessment recorded
- Policy version
- 2026-10-28.7
Rationale
Not checked against evidence. Two independent screens, one from each provider, both found that evidence could not settle it: one found it too vague to test: informed readers would test it in different ways and reach different answers; the other found it stated as a chance or a possibility, or at medium or low confidence.
Limitations
None recorded.
Evidence (0 items)
No evidence was searched for. Both screens found that public evidence could not settle this claim.
Where it was said (1)
Said once in the sources this register covers.
: Where's Your Ed At, AI Doesn't Have ROI
Every different prompt and project and interaction can go wrong in a way that is hard to predict or plan for other than having an eternal vigilance that the supposed “intelligence” doesn’t do something catastrophically stupid, because LLMs have no thoughts, consciousness or ability to learn outside of pre and post-training.
- Where
- paragraph 7
- Published
- 2026-06-02
- Source observed
- , live page
- Access
- full text, public
History
Assessment versions
- Assessment wyea-ai-doesnt-have-roi-683e97-a1: Current. Outcome: Can’t be checked. Not checked against evidence. Public date not recorded.
Recorded events
Assessment publishedBy this site
First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.