Who Supervises the Supervisor? A Riff on Machine Learning

“Supervision” implies benign intent, but it can be cruel and coercive. WAUWINET, AUGUST 6, 2026. My effort to learn how machines learn has me mulling over “supervision.” A lot lurks behind that bland term. In Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI , Anil Ananthaswamy notes that until recently machine-learning programs have needed human supervision to recognize shapes, sounds,…