AI is everywhere. It feels like I can’t go a week without someone telling me I must use it: it will save me time; it will make my work easier, and my writing better; it will help me think through problems, and act as a free therapist; it will create posters and images and flyers in a flash; it will help me find information and learn faster; it will save me having to think so much or remember things. This is not particularly appealing: I like thinking and designing, and writing for myself. And what I see of AI is that it is ruining everything. It is destroying institutions, destabilising economies, erasing job opportunities, creating a permanent underclass, eroding societal trust, strip mining the planet, pushing some people into psychosis, and making us all more stupid and less able to think critically.
A recent experience illustrated the problem perfectly.
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