“We also discovered from court testimony this week that some reasonably high level employees working on driverless cars were apparently unaware of human factors engineering (an absolute necessity if humans are in the loop).”
Our reading, the sentence that was checked:
Court testimony indicates some fairly senior driverless-car employees were apparently unaware of human factors engineering, which is essential when humans are in the loop.
Assessment: Can’t be checked Evidence as of
Where and when Gary Marcus wrote it
Marcus on AI, 24 Seriously Embarrassing Hours for AI, paragraph 3.
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- Evidence as of
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- assessment marcus-24-seriously-embarrassing-hours-for-1323fd-a2
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The wording above is the version this site observed on 2026-10-29. The source may have been edited after 2023-01-18. This page does not claim the wording was captured then.
What the claim commits to
- Kind
- Observation
- Deadline, as the speaker wrote it
- None stated. This site does not add one.
- Deadline state when assessed
- No horizon
- Deadline state on 2026-10-29
- No horizon (the release’s reference date)
Conditions
- apparently (qualifier, stated by the speaker)
From the speaker
- court testimony this week
- some reasonably high level employees
- apparently unaware of human factors engineering
- an absolute necessity if humans are in the loop
Our interpretation
- 'Apparently' qualifies the inference about employees' knowledge. Under the supplied rule, that inference is not converted into an unqualified assertion.
- 'This week' concerns when the testimony came to public attention, not necessarily when the depositions occurred.
- The parenthetical assertion about human-factors engineering is retained, but is not substituted for the qualified central claim.
- Unfamiliarity with terminology, lack of specialist responsibility and lack of substantive knowledge are distinct.
This claim is not graded on evidence. The record checks that the words are quoted correctly and attributed to the right person, and that the claim is classified correctly.
Current assessment
Not graded on evidence
Outcome: Can’t be checked
The statement is a recommendation, a value judgment, or too open to test. It is recorded, not scored.
- Evidence as of
- Deadline state when assessed
- No horizon
- Assessment recorded
- Policy version
- 2026-10-28.7
Rationale
The central assertion is an explicitly qualified inference about employees' knowledge. Scoring it would remove 'apparently', contrary to the supplied rule. The transcript documents a narrower answer about terminology. It cannot by itself establish ignorance of a whole discipline, and the parenthetical assertion cannot substitute for the submitted claim.
Limitations
- This does not establish that the employees were familiar with human-factors engineering.
- The accessible contextual testimony concerns Elluswamy; Shroff's transcript was not successfully retrieved.
- The necessity of human-factors engineering remains a separate component requiring its own assessment.
Evidence (1 item)
No outcome evidence: a claim of this kind is recorded and attributed, not scored.
What would settle it
Separate unqualified claims about named employees' recorded answers and a defined claim about human-factors requirements could be assessed against complete transcripts, role records and safety research.
Where it was said (1)
Said once in the sources this register covers.
: Marcus on AI, 24 Seriously Embarrassing Hours for AI
We also discovered from court testimony this week that some reasonably high level employees working on driverless cars were apparently unaware of human factors engineering (an absolute necessity if humans are in the loop).
- Where
- paragraph 3
- Published
- 2023-01-18
- Source observed
- , live page
- Access
- full text, public
History
Assessment versions
- Assessment marcus-24-seriously-embarrassing-hours-for-1323fd-a2: Current. Outcome: Can’t be checked. Evidence as of 2026-10-28. Public date not recorded.
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The openai review found the criteria unfair to the speaker's words.
About assessment marcus-24-seriously-embarrassing-hours-for-1323fd-a1, which was not published.