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Short summaries of Christine's essays from Letters to Future Humans, her free Substack on the AI transition. Newest first. Each links to the full post on Substack.
Six thousand chats is not a brain. It is a fragmented record of your mind living inside a product with questionable values. Yesterday, from the woods, I used AI to do a kind of worldview work I don’t think I could have done from my desk, at home, or even with a coach.
You may be wondering, why is it that my predecessors believed that technology has to be at war with nature? And why, when they created AI, did they create it as an enemy to nature? The first answer to these questions comes from a book called Genesis, which was actually a smaller book within a longer religious text called, by some, the Bible and, by others, the Torah.
You will want to know why, when AI arrived, the only question anyone seemed to care about was how to make money with it. We can have the conversation around how to make money with it. And I do. And some of us are trying to have a different conversation in tandem so that we can make wiser choices.
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