Proponents will as they always have. The AI bubble is real, and there are computer scientists on both sides that argue the merits or issue cautionary tales. What I want is for more people like you to be in the room when they start thinking about these applications.

So, what I am hoping is that my human factors practitioner colleagues will stop throwing rocks from the sidelines and start lobbying to become part of the creation of these programs to make them more humane at launch and after.

The issue I find pervasive is that so many of the critics lack a deep understanding of how this technology works. I have spent many hours in virtual webinars and classes on the computer science behind AI. While my grasp is very limited, I have a profound respect for their capabilities and limits.

Data is information that can span formats and lacks meaning without context.

maybe news outlets with dwindling resources could pull just one reporter off the sam altman beat and have them cover the complete and total destruction of all U.S. consumer protection and corporate oversight?

Because I curiously don't see many stories on that

When I rank story dept I regularly awarded the “William Faulkner Run On Sentence” Award. Mr Ritchie would have been a regular winner.

Gambling in Casablanca? I’m shocked. Round up the usual suspects.

Neil Postman offered the below in1998

The greater the wonders of technology, the greater will be its negative consequences.

Some gain, some lose, few remain the same.

A new medium does not add something, it changes everything

In my classes year the students anchored in discernment, the need to promote deeper reflection on what is served by AI Search and in the search results

East of Eden by John Steinbeck. It was the first book to transport me mentally to another place in time and look hard at family ties that bind here also, a primary character. Kathy is the scariest character I have run into in all the fiction I’ve read, and that includes Stephen King

Saw all of these in Hollywood and now in the tech race to create something uncontrollable. When I despair stories such as these inspire. Sometimes it is not the “thought leaders” who show the way but the boots on the ground. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/b...

What to do? Support local journalism; support real national journalism (like @404media.co); and do not normalize the use of "AI".

For more on the larger con this is all a part of, who's reaping the benefits, and what you can do about it, see The AI Con w/@alexhanna.bsky.social

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