Here’s a thought-provoking article from Harry Law on “The last temptation of Claude”—the urge to outsource all of your thinking to AI (and remember, writing is thinking).
A common theme in the AI commentary I’ve been reading lately is the growing importance of taste. AI is sending the cost of creating “content” (articles, analyses, video, etc.) to zero, even as the attention to consume it all remains fixed. If we want to keep living in a world where AI serves us, we need—more than ever—the discernment to choose the questions worth asking.
As I put it in my Globe and Mail op-ed on AI and journalism a few years ago:
AI won’t replace the sort of journalism that holds power accountable, but it could certainly enhance it. After all, you can teach a machine to spot patterns, but you can’t force it to care about your community.