The Anti-Expert System: Hypotheses an AI Program Should Have Seen Through Joshua Lederberg

One of the most difficult steps in the development of an expert system is the recruitment and exploitation of the domain wizards. Almost always it is necessary to establish teams of specialists to deal with the programming issues and the user interfaces as well as the incorporation of domain specific knowledge. Experts will communicate how they read a gel, or what is the canonical biological interpretation of DNA sequences conserved over phyletically diverse organisms. The computer scientist will rarely have an independent base of knowledge and experience for critical judgments about the wisdom thus received. Therein may lie the greatest hazards from the proliferation of expert systems; for much of that expertise is fallible.