Is Al a scam, a potential genocidal maniac, a wizard with magical powers, or just meh? (See below.) What is your take on Al?
- A.I. as scam. See Emily Bender and Alex Hanna, The AI con (Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, 26 June 2025): Bender and Hanna explain why A.I. in education simply leads to the perfunctory performance of educational tasks without the fulfillment of their original purpose: learning.
- A.I. as magic. See Ethan Mollick, On working with wizards (Substack, 11 Sept. 2025): Mollick explains why the best A.I. models are now indistinguishable from magic.
- A.I. as meh. See David Wallace-Wells, A.I. may be just kind of ordinary (N.Y. Times, 20 Aug. 2025): Wallace-Wells explains why A.I. is more like electricity or the Internet, once-revolutionary technologies that are now normal and taken for granted.
- A.I. as genocidal maniac. See Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares, Can we survive A.I.? (Sam Harris podcast, 16 Sept. 2025): Yudkowsky and Soares explain why A.I. will destroy the world.
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