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Liza O.'s avatar

Such depth in this post, I will likely read it a few times. While I agree that AI has some great uses that are not a threat to our humanity, the thought that kept popping into my head while reading your post was that by misusing AI, we are cheating ourselves. It’s like students who just want to pass the tests in school instead of doing the work and actually learning. You provided several other examples of how we could cheat ourselves by taking AI shortcuts in our lives.

I’ve heard others say that China’s AI (DeepSeek) is far superior to US models. Honestly I haven’t played with AI beyond using it for web search engine summaries.

Thank you, Laura!

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Carl Grimsman's avatar

The answer to AI online domination is to gravitate more back to the in-person world. Face-to-face is the antidote to the increasingly non-human media sphere. Speaking, making music, gathering together...

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