Ham,

AI will outcast you.

Just accept it.

Outlast but outcast works too.

Outcast is probably the most accurate.

Lamp,

Do you use AI for anything?

Lamp,

You base your opinions on what other people think?

Don't be stupid.

Whether you know it or not, AI is being used all around you.

AI will be fine tuned and improved. Think of society as being the beta test site.

Computer-heads are obsessed with this new transforming technology and will figure out how it will work best in society.

Its entirely too late to stop it now.

That train left the station.

Lamp,

I accept technology. I'm glad I lived long enough to see this.

I've been a computer-head my entire working life.

In one lifetime, I watched television go from 3 channels with rabbit ears on top of the set to what we have today. That's an unbelievable technological leap when you really stop and think about it.

I wonder when another generation will experience changes as transforming as the ones I witnessed firsthand.

Who else remembers adjusting the black and white TV set to stop the picture from rolling?

And now we're watching AI emerge in real time.

Like the Borg said in Star Trek The Next Generation,

"Resistance is futile."

Lamp.

Really, you sound ridiculous suggesting you're too enlightened to accept AI.

Lamp,

Is running down AI and pretending it's not a tsunami about to transform the way humans work now the fashionable position for self-described "independent thinkers" who consider themselves intellectually superior?

Because from where I'm sitting, a lot of it sounds less like deep thinking and more like denial wrapped in smugness.

You don't have to worship AI to recognize reality.

The industrial revolution changed physical labor.

Computers changed information and communication.

AI is going to change cognitive labor.

Humans will still be here working alongside AI.

Technology keeps advancing whether we approve of it or not.

Lamp,

"I did not say I was too enlightened to accept AI"

And you're worried about AI lying?

Lamp,

"Well, thank-you for considering me as an independent thinker."

Don't flatter yourself.

Notice I put "independent thinker" in quotes.

The quotation marks were there for a reason.

Lamp,

You mentioned a family blaming AI for influencing their teenage son into using illicit drugs.

If the boy had used a gun to kill himself, there are people who would blame the gun and argue the solution is removing guns from society.

But neither guns nor AI are going to disappear.

They are powerful tools that can be used responsibly or irresponsibly.

What society needs is better education on using both responsibly.

Eff,

"Shopping malls were huge until they weren't."

Land and buildings have been getting repurposed or torn down for centuries.

That just leads to new construction projects and different kinds of jobs.

Until someone posts something I find worth responding to, I am done here.

Snoofy,

"Who pays?"

If public schools can find the time and funds to discuss gender identity, they can find time to cover subjects that are directly relevant to the real world lives and safety of school age children.

That includes basic gun safety and handling
and education about AI. Such as how to use AI responsibly, where it can mislead people and what kinds of topics should be avoided.

AI is becoming part of everyday life whether people like it or not.

Pretending students don't need guidance on these subjects makes about as much sense as pretending the internet doesn't exist.