Who Does the Extrapolation?

In August I argued that AI is an interpolation engine: it matches new situations against the codified body of human knowledge, which is why it swallowed contract review, code, and audit sampling, and why it has produced no new physics. Most professional work is interpolation. So the premium migrates to the rare thing, extrapolation: pushing the body of knowledge outward, into territory where there is nothing to match against.

That piece left two questions open, and they are harder than the one it answered. If extrapolation is the work that still pays, are we producing people who can do it? And is there a way to teach it?