A.I. and ChatGPT are great, but we still need experts.

I first become aware of A.I. in 1968, when I saw a movie that affected me deeply, 2001: A Space Odyssey, by the director Stanley Kubrick. I was 21 years old. I loved science-fiction movies, but this one had a special significance.

As a person with autism, I’m more rational and fact-based than emotional and feeling-based, and my speech has been described as monotone or unmodulated. In high school, some of the kids called me “robot” and “tape recorder.” That’s part of why I related to HAL, the sentient computer who, with his steady voice and hyper-logic, helps the…