The Unseen Work of AI Engineers

AI engineers don't just code algorithms. It's more complex than that. They spend months

teaching systems to unlearn biases hiding in training data. I watched an AI associate doctors

with men, learning from biased internet text. The fix took longer than building

the original model itself. Most people think AI just gets smarter automatically.

But engineers manually label millions of images and correct thousands of mistakes. It's like teaching

a toddler with access to the entire internet. But who can't yet discern truth

from fiction.