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dilemma
So you want a system that is not only knowledgeable but self-reflective. Far beyond what machine learning can do and why AI is a pipe dream.
threepipeproblm
While I also tend to be an AI skeptic, did you actually ready this? For example, the author suggests how using confidence data that are already available, and discusses techniques for getting these across to the user.

Then suggests a measure of "controversialness" that, also, does not require pipe dream AI.

I thought this was a very insightful piece, cataloging a slew of potentially reasonable approaches aimed at a growing problem.

liberte82
Well, I certainly wouldn't include humans in this category.
rafiki6
Wrote my comment before I saw this, +1
mdinstuhl
Dunning-Kreuger syndrome is, like, just your opinion man.
rafiki6
Do humans fall under those "systems"...I definitely know some people who need to.

Disclaimer: I haven't read the article so this comment is purely internet sarcasm

darkerside
Interesting that many of these wrong answers seem to be a result of begging the question in the traditional sense. i.e. when you ask "are Jews evil?", you are only going to find answers from sources that are willing to pose the question in the first place.
jtraffic
I skimmed. My synopsis: "ML models should report confidence levels."
pimmen
Or, like Watson when it played Jeopardy, not respond at all if the confidence is under a certain threshold.