caveatting

English

Verb

caveatting

1. present participle and gerund of caveat (alternative spelling of caveating).
   • 2015, Stuart Armstrong, Kaj Sotala, “How We’re Predicting AI – or Failing to”, in Jan Romportl, Eva Zakova, Jozef Kelemen, editors, Beyond Artificial Intelligence: The Disappearing Human–Machine Divide (Topics in Intelligent Engineering and Informatics; 9), Cham, Switzerland: Springer, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 19:

     Here, by clarifying and caveatting assumptions, and revealing hidden assumption, we reduce the number of worlds in which the prediction is valid. This means that the prediction puts fewer constraints on our expectations. In counterpart, of course, the caveatted prediction is likely to be true.