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Aye, sure, but you don't check the result of calculations manually, do you, because you trust the calculator.
Similarly, you probably don't stress test every joint on every car you get into, do you?
My point being that there is a point at which you do trust the tool sufficiently.
Is it at the state of cancer diagnosis? Definitely not. How about cooking? Yes, pretty much it is. I trust it more or less when cooking and making drinks.
I've also gotten a ton of actually helpfil medical information that real life doctors fucked up.
So yeah one should be critical but just don't be a complete luddite.
Do you know what else is math? Probability and statistics. AI cannot do math because it is not a suitable task for it. Seriously, who TF thinks that a rigorous well defined process should be fed into a statistical blackbox.
Do you know what else the engineer uses to optimize a product design? The answer may surprise you...