Why AI Needs a “Genie Coefficient”

This essay was written with Barath Raghavan, and originally appeared in IEEE Spectrum . Major benchmarks measure what AI can do. None measure whether it does what you mean: the distance between what you ask an AI to do and the unspoken assumptions about how you want the AI to do it. We propose a new metric: the Genie coefficient. There’s often a gap between one person’s request and another’s…

Summary written for cymesh.dev. The full article lives at Schneier on Security.