Keep the Thinking (opens in new tab)

There is a fear narrative about AI that I think misses the most interesting thing happening. The story goes that we will offload everything to the machine — both the thinking and the doing — and that whatever we get back will be a hollow imitation of what we used to make. Some of this is true. There will be a great deal of work made by people who have abdicated both halves of the job to the agent, and very little of it will be memorable. But the more interesting situation is the one where we ...