My Kids Will Fancy Generative AI, I Choose to Fight It

Imagine a world where humans don’t write anymore

This article is a selection from The Algorithmic Bridge, an educational project to bridge the gap between AI and people.

Who’d choose, knowingly, to read novels written by an AI incapable of imagination?

Or essays on the human condition by a robot that can’t share our dreams and dreads?

Or poems of forsaken lovers by a loveless machine?

Or…

The dreaded coin of our undecided fate

The ultimate reality will be this: Many people will lose their jobs due to AI. Many people will find a job related to AI. Doesn’t make for a good story, does it? Too nuanced. But it’s one as old as time.

Those two seemingly conflicting predictions are the opposite sides of the same coin. A coin that’s flipped in the air every time a world-shaking innovation steers our society into a new direction we didn’t predict. Sometimes, the coin takes its time to land. It’s in the meantime that either one side or the other dominates the conversation; “it will land heads!” “No, tails.” “No, definitely heads!” That’s us now. Endlessly arguing about a question that time will dissipate into nothing.