"there are not many people who understand AI"
I would venture that there is nobody who understands AI, since we don't have AI. What we have is statistical analysis machines, and statistics are a rather difficult branch of mathematics to grep properly. Not as hard as thermodynamics, for sure, but hard enough for the general population (including me).
So getting a competent statistician for those SAMs is likely to be difficult, but finding someone who understands AI is simply impossible.
They day we do have AI, we will need psychologists to try to understand it, not statisticians.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
