Andy Masley

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Hard Fork · Australia Kicks Kids Off Social Media + Is the A.I. Water Issue Fake? + Hard Fork Wrapped · 12 Dec 2025 podcast

And I feel like

if I could take myself forward in time to the present and see like, oh, now everyone is kind of litigating like equivalently, like whether they watch YouTube for a few extra seconds a day or something like that would just kind of depress me.

So I do think that like from an environmentalist standpoint, I do kind of want to snap people out of this incredibly tiny concern and parts of their lives.

And if I make some allies with people who hate environmentalists, that's unfortunate.

But like, I do want to get the message out there.

I think more broadly, though, I'm becoming more and more convinced that like

bad arguments and bad arguments against ai are mostly just drowning out the good ones like i think there are just a ton of reasons to be worried even for like non-weird sci-fi scenarios that like ai as it currently exists can be harming people a lot and i think that to get a full sense of what's going on like the average person should probably at least poke around a chatbot a little bit and just have some general idea of like what can these models do like you don't have to use them in your life ever like i'm not saying like you are obligated to use ai

But I would at least like people to understand that these are very different from like a roulette wheel that just lands on random words and can't possibly produce any value because a lot of people still seem to be motivated by this.

And like they seem to be motivated in part to not use them by these environmental arguments.

I do actually I have worried about this a lot where I'm like, I'm worried that I'm coming off on like one strong side of this and just helping the pro AI side, which I don't really want to do.

But.

I have to admit, for the most part, just like the general understanding of this stuff is so bad.

And I would like my side to at least be like armed with a correct understanding of the world.

And this just feels like honestly shooting fish in a barrel, like so many misunderstandings are still floating around everywhere that this all leads me to the direction of thinking like, okay, I'd like people to actually understand that this one thing is incorrect.

Let's focus on the more serious stuff instead, including like things that I think a lot of AI critics would otherwise like agree with me on.

Yeah, a lot of things to say.

I guess I want to respond to it with a lot of respect, first of all, because I'm trying to write for an audience where it doesn't matter whether you love or hate AI.

I'm very worried about AI overall, but also a very big fan of AI tools as they currently exist.

I use chatbots pretty regularly.

And this does bias my writing to an extent, where I do think I have a lot of positive impressions of AI as it currently exists.

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