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Two telling tales about the impact of the emerging artificial intelligence realm on human life emerged from a pair of end-of-year announcements over the last week.
One was the word “slop” being named word of the year for 2025 by the editors of the Merriam-Webster dictionary. Merriam-Webster defines slop as “digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence.” This sums up the fact that AI has been churning out content that some people find annoying or even bordering on the ridiculous.
The second tale relates to the announcement of the Time person of the year: the architects of AI. One wonders if we ought to celebrate or simply admit the fact that we have stepped into the unknown — that the super-powerful machine and its operating algorithm have come to dominate human life. It is not yet known how far this trend will impact the role of the individual as a free-willed creature in the future.
At the same time, the Financial Times named Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang as its person of the year due to his role in providing the tech industry with its single most important component: chips.
