It seems like the biggest benefit of generative AI might be what it says about us, rather than what it can do for us. A quick look at AI craze through the lens of someone trying to figure out what it means for their life.
As population increases, our tiniest wants snowball into systemic issues for all. Slowly we are starting to resemble a sci-fi hive mind.
How we are more than the objects that our work or education requires us to be, and why we should stop referring to ourselves simply as a brain.
About listening to the unlistenable, bringing sanity to the world, and why politics start with changing how we communicate.
On airplanes, fault tolerance and why we should assume everyone will have horrible parents.
How growth at all costs increases inequality, harms users and pushed Facebook to be complicit in an ethnic cleansing.
This article originally appeared on Medium as a rebuttal to some really shoddy argumentation regarding COVID-19 research. A lot has happened since then, I imagine it might not be as relevant as it once used to be.