In Defense of Using AI for Fun

Why I think we all need to chill out a bit

Cartoon generated by the author via the Ideogram model in Leonardo AI

The rapid rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is IMO the most significant (and disruptive) development since Gutenberg’s printing press. It’s more disruptive than the car, the airplane, radio, television, and the Internet.

This is especially the case with generative AI.

As AI takes firm hold in our society, count on industries changing, jobs being lost, and people’s livelihoods being impacted. Already, content creators are under serious strain.

And the effect it will have (and is having) on education is too overwhelming to fully calculate.

For these reasons, I’m not some blind pro-AI cheerleader.

AI needs regulation (global regulation, not just national regulation). And count me among those who view the rise of AI with a high degree of caution and not a little bit of serious concern.

Still…

The knee-jerk, anti-AI hysteria that manifests across the internet and in everyday conversations is quite frankly irrational and doesn’t help matters one iota.