AI Mistakes Are Very Different from Human Mistakes

Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders, writing in a post: Someone who makes calculus mistakes is also likely to respond "I don't know" to calculus-related questions. To the extent that AI systems make these human-like mistakes, we can bring all of our mistake-correcting systems to bear on their output. But the current crop of AI models -- particularly LLMs -- make mistakes differently.
AI errors come at seemingly random times, without any clustering around particular topics. LLM mistakes tend to