Invisible LLM Failures and AI Fluency with Chris Potts (Stanford)
About this episode
Chris Potts discusses the hidden failure modes in human interaction with AI chatbots and the concept of AI fluency.
What happens when a Stanford linguistics professor turns his attention to AI chatbots — and the surprisingly invisible ways humans misunderstand them? Chris Potts joins the show to unpack the hidden failure modes in how we interact with AI, what it really means to become a more fluent user, and why these language-wielding systems are genuinely alien in ways we're only beginning to reckon with. His perspective sits at a rare intersection of linguistics, cognition, and machine learning — and it shows.
People in this episode
Host: Katie Malone
Guest: Chris Potts
Topics covered
- AI chatbots
- linguistics
- human misunderstanding
- AI fluency
- machine learning
- cognition
Keywords
- AI
- chatbots
- linguistics
- human interaction
- machine learning
- cognition
- fluency
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Stanford
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