Memes Before Machines: The Real Cognitive Risk of the AI Age (opens in new tab)

I strongly urge you to read a New York Times opinion piece by Willy Staley titled "Forget the A.I. Apocalypse. Memes Have Already Nuked Our Culture." (unlocked link). Here I pass on ChatGPTs response to my request that it compose a MindBlog post delivering the basic messages of the article. It provided the title for this post and the following text: Public anxiety about artificial intelligence has settled into a familiar groove: superintelligence, runaway systems, existential risk. These conc...