Not Really a Fan of AI
I’m not really a fan of artificial intelligence.
I don’t enjoy the breathless optimism or the reflexive panic. I don’t think it’s sentient. I don’t think it’s trivial.
Mostly, I think it’s already doing what technologies usually do: quietly reshaping how people think about themselves.
AI isn’t impressive because it writes or summarizes or generates images. Those are party tricks. Useful ones, occasionally.
What’s more interesting is how quickly it becomes background.
People stop asking what it is and start negotiating with it. They phrase requests. They revise prompts. They adjust expectations.
They begin to notice which parts of thinking they miss and which parts they’re relieved to outsource.
I’m not really a fan of calling this intelligence. But I am paying attention to what happens when people stop feeling alone in their cognition.
That’s not a revolution. It’s a reconfiguration.
And like most reconfigurations, it won’t feel dramatic in hindsight. It will feel obvious.