CEOs: Implementing AI without understanding this one thing could cost you

Sam Altman’s recent declaration that OpenAI now knows how to build artificial general intelligence (AGI) has reignited debates about AI’s future. While such claims generate headlines, as a neuroscientist who spent over a decade studying how the brain works, I find myself focused on a different paradox: One of the most common criticisms of modern AI systems—that we do not fully understand how they work—might actually be one of their most brain-like features.