Dr. Leon Furze argues that as AI products become more polished and reliable, the public’s opportunity to scrutinize and critique the technology is rapidly narrowing. He draws a historical parallel to electricity and telecommunications, technologies that drew heavy criticism while visibly unreliable but became invisible and unquestioned once they worked consistently. Furze contends that better interface design will increasingly hide how AI agents actually work, and argues educational institutions in particular should insist on maintaining visibility into these systems’ inner workings before that window closes.
