Proponents of Gen-AI will argue that you should go all in on their next-gen LLMs because, unlike current systems and many humans (who are lousy keepers of record), their decisions, like their actions, are 100% auditable. And, again, that’s complete and utter bullcr@p.

Just because you can ask the LLMs to output their reasoning, and you can ask them to log everything they do from the minute you start the interaction, but, because the reasoning is all based on probabilistic math at a scale NO human can understand (and for which we have NO measurements yet), you have no idea WHY the LLM reasoned a certain something or IF the Gen-AI will reason the same way on the same request, even if that request is re-iterated only 5 minutes later!

You can simply search the internet for hundreds of examples out there of people giving the exact same prompt to the exact same LLM AI five minutes later and getting a slightly to completely different response.

Gen-AI LLMs don’t understand. They don’t actually reason. And they definitely don’t think! That’s why they are NOT auditable. And that’s also why they should NEVER make a decision. (However, since they can analyze more data, and for some tasks have, more often than not, achieved a competence beyond an average human happy to regress in IQ to the late neolithic era, they should definitely suggest decisions with their reasoning. But the LLMs should never, ever, execute on those decisions without human approval.)

The reality is that only an LLMs ability to log what was done in an immutable blockchain format is useful compared to an employee who knowingly did something wrong for a bad reason. Since the AI is not intelligent, and doesn’t have ethics, it has no reason NOT to log its reasoning and why an action was taken. But, as per above, the LLM is still NOT auditable.