I suppose this article about AI is as good as any to share my thoughts on the sheer inevitability of it being integrated into every aspect of our lives. This shouldn’t be taken as a value judgement - I’m not saying it’s a good thing. But the overwhelming utility, allure, and power of it is unstoppable. Artists worried about it making them irrelevant, concerns about distinguishing truth from fiction, impact on learning and development, etc. etc. etc.: all totally valid, but the discussion and planning both collectively and individually needs to start with the assumption that there is nothing anyone can do to stop it.

Taking the first example, if you’re an artist worried about AI replacing you, you need to start your thinking from a position of AI is absolutely going to make the “I can create an image” part of your value proposition worthless. Yes, a massive fraction of what you might have been able to get paid and recognized for in the past is now utterly irrelevant. Pleading with the public to not use AI, protesting, demanding legislation, praying - none of it will stop this reality from coming to be in your lifetime, probably within a few years at most.

I see a lot of comments and articles that don’t seem to understand this at all. They think there’s some way we can slow the adoption of AI in areas we think it’s harmful, or legislate a way into a desirable future, or whatever. They’re wrong. Whatever the future holds for us, it’s one where AI will be absolutely everywhere and massively disrupt society and industry as it exists today. Start your planning from that reality or you’re going to get blindsided.