Joshua Rothman

We did nothing. We've all experienced what it is to have a technology insert itself into our daily life in a way that replaces old habits with new habits. In my mind, there's a couple scenarios. In one scenario... We live in a science fiction novel, and we really don't have much of an opportunity to intervene. The technology is just coming, and it's coming next year or year after.

Because the AI will learn to make itself better. That's the scenario Jeff Hinton is worried about, and it's real. In my dream world, probably a functional government would step in. A functional government, you say? But we don't have one, really. There's another scenario where the technology just takes a while. And then there is an opportunity to weigh in in various ways.

Because the AI will learn to make itself better. That's the scenario Jeff Hinton is worried about, and it's real. In my dream world, probably a functional government would step in. A functional government, you say? But we don't have one, really. There's another scenario where the technology just takes a while. And then there is an opportunity to weigh in in various ways.

Because the AI will learn to make itself better. That's the scenario Jeff Hinton is worried about, and it's real. In my dream world, probably a functional government would step in. A functional government, you say? But we don't have one, really. There's another scenario where the technology just takes a while. And then there is an opportunity to weigh in in various ways.

It wouldn't be a bad thing. to establish a consensus or a law that says that certain boundaries shouldn't be crossed. And we have laws that protect children online. Maybe one of the laws should be children shouldn't be preyed upon by computers that pretend to be adults.

It wouldn't be a bad thing. to establish a consensus or a law that says that certain boundaries shouldn't be crossed. And we have laws that protect children online. Maybe one of the laws should be children shouldn't be preyed upon by computers that pretend to be adults.

It wouldn't be a bad thing. to establish a consensus or a law that says that certain boundaries shouldn't be crossed. And we have laws that protect children online. Maybe one of the laws should be children shouldn't be preyed upon by computers that pretend to be adults.

My dream scenario is that in the next few years, we start to take seriously the need to think ahead, which we've never done before. But on the other hand, we do know what to be worried about.

My dream scenario is that in the next few years, we start to take seriously the need to think ahead, which we've never done before. But on the other hand, we do know what to be worried about.

My dream scenario is that in the next few years, we start to take seriously the need to think ahead, which we've never done before. But on the other hand, we do know what to be worried about.

I think de facto that's what's happening now. Here I really, on some level, I'm looking at myself because I'm a humanist who works in media. It makes me think I need to think more about what it is that I think this technology should and should not do in my world and talk about it.

I think de facto that's what's happening now. Here I really, on some level, I'm looking at myself because I'm a humanist who works in media. It makes me think I need to think more about what it is that I think this technology should and should not do in my world and talk about it.

I think de facto that's what's happening now. Here I really, on some level, I'm looking at myself because I'm a humanist who works in media. It makes me think I need to think more about what it is that I think this technology should and should not do in my world and talk about it.

Like, I think there's a lot of people who work in AI who say schools are a century-old institution that could just go away. Maybe it would be better. We'd learn more. But that's such a narrow aperture through which to think about what schools do and how children live. I don't want schools to go away, and I don't want teachers to be replaced with screens.

Like, I think there's a lot of people who work in AI who say schools are a century-old institution that could just go away. Maybe it would be better. We'd learn more. But that's such a narrow aperture through which to think about what schools do and how children live. I don't want schools to go away, and I don't want teachers to be replaced with screens.

Like, I think there's a lot of people who work in AI who say schools are a century-old institution that could just go away. Maybe it would be better. We'd learn more. But that's such a narrow aperture through which to think about what schools do and how children live. I don't want schools to go away, and I don't want teachers to be replaced with screens.

We're at a point where teachers and parents need to say that. It sounds ridiculous to say against this big technological juggernaut that we just need to make our voices heard. But I think right now we haven't tried. So I think right now there isn't enough discussion of AI. There's a lot going on.

We're at a point where teachers and parents need to say that. It sounds ridiculous to say against this big technological juggernaut that we just need to make our voices heard. But I think right now we haven't tried. So I think right now there isn't enough discussion of AI. There's a lot going on.

We're at a point where teachers and parents need to say that. It sounds ridiculous to say against this big technological juggernaut that we just need to make our voices heard. But I think right now we haven't tried. So I think right now there isn't enough discussion of AI. There's a lot going on.

Absolutely. I mean, in my school district, a big discussion is about banning cell phones in schools, for example. And so I don't think it's true that, you know, we're totally powerless. Like when I think about the fact that it's the year 2025 and we're now talking about banning cell phones, I have two feelings about that. One is like, how could we have only been talking about this now?