Maximal violation of the CHSH-Bell inequality is usually said to be a feature
of anticommuting observables. In this work we show that even random observables
exhibit near-maximal violations of the CHSH-Bell inequality. To do this, we use
the tools of free probability theory to analyze the commutators of large random
matrices. Along the way, we introduce the notion of "free observables" which
can be thought of as infinite-dimensional operators that reproduce the
statistics of random matrices as their dimension tends towards infinity. We
also study the fine-grained uncertainty of a sequence of free or random
observables, and use this to construct a steering inequality with a large
violation
