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I’m not proud of it, but for the last year I’ve been that annoying guy at parties who talks about AI. When I tell people I’m working on a newsletter about it, I’m met with the usual frowns and suspicion.
But wait! Don’t walk away yet. This is not one of those ads about how an AI tool can replace your friends or trick your boss into thinking you stayed up all night working on a presentation. Instead, I’m focused on ways to use AI that don’t rob me – or anyone – of humanity.
Like most people, I hate mindless slop and the threat AI poses to our privacy, mental faculties and jobs. But I view AI in a similar way to the internet.
Yes, the internet unfortunately gave us doomscrolling, data harvesting, clickbait and your uncle’s Facebook posts on vaccines. But it also gave us digital maps, podcasts, niche blogs, Wikipedia, video calls and, who can forget, the Guardian app.
