Particularly because it’s gonna be used for edge cases (difficult or ambiguous questions and items with big costs and life safety impacts) from people too embarrassed to ask for help and too scared to stand up to clients.

Oh it’s started. It was my first thought when the AI chat bubble popped up in the Building Code E-Library.

All of the AI hype is fundamentally about dodging and outsourcing responsibility and liability. It’s a smokescreen clad in questionable productivity gains.

Moreover, do you actually believe any of these AI evangelists will take personal responsibility for the errors or problems produced by their AI work. Of course not. The first thing they will say is that the AI ‘made’ the mistake not me.