news
Bum education
Technology as spiralling mass hysteria has the unsettling potential to draw even rational sceptics like myself into disaffection. One must not merely reject duff technology, but also those other people who have been hypnotised and now see anyone reluctant to join them as a threat. Nothing angers the pathological neophyte more than a rejection of his "solutions". So "AI" is splitting society. The typical non-thinker sees only two options, those who are "racing to embrace the future", and sour Luddites living in woodland shacks who will be "left behind".
This causes the most reasonable voices to be shut down, or simply drowned out in the noise. Voices like those of psychologists and education experts who point to the massive harms already emerging from the use of "AI". The problem with the "narrative" of progress is that there is none, just an undignified clamour like a Black Friday feeding frenzy.
Thus I am compelled to write more on this topic, because if anything we experts are not nearly vocal enough at this very serious juncture.